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History Unplugged Podcast

No Supply Chain Was More Complicated Than the Allies’ During WW2. How Did They Maintain It?

History Unplugged Podcast

History Unplugged

History, Society & Culture

4.24K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

World War 2 was won due to Allied bravery, superior strategy, better technology, and more supplies. But the true unsung hero of the war effort is the Allied logistics network. The U.S. alone fed and supplied soldiers through a planet-spanning supply...

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Welcome to the History Unplugged Podcast, where we look at the forgotten, neglected, strange and even counterfactual stories that made our world what it is.

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The Allies won World War II due to a number of factors.

1:22.5

Bravery, superior strategy, its leadership, technological breakthroughs, but one of the unsung heroes of World War II is the Allied supply chain.

1:31.5

The United States alone had a logistics network on a planetary scale, at which two people were able to get the information from the United States.

1:38.5

The United States alone had a logistics network on a planetary scale, at which two wars on different continents at the same time.

1:46.5

They kept supply 98 divisions on a supply line that was over 10,000 miles long, 7,000 miles from San Francisco to Manila, and another 4,000 miles from New York City to Normandy.

1:57.5

Almost 2,000,000 of supplies reached Britain in May 1944 alone.

2:02.5

Dwight Eisenhower said that the United Kingdom was turned into one gigantic airbase, workshop, storage depot, and mobilization camp.

2:11.5

What it took to set up this military logistics network was about producing the units, equipment, and supplies needed for combat, but that's only the first stage.

2:19.5

After they come out of an American factory, then these are shipped halfway across the world to remote beach or port.

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