Yeah, I also read this was the reason the YAMATO and her sister ship (huge dreadnoughts) were useless in the war against the US (despite having insane armor and weaponry).
Seems the flaw of both Hitler and the Japan empire on trying to build "biggest" to cause fear..also caused huge deviation of resources that could have developed/build and man many more effective individual units. (like a single paris gun vs a full tank division )
Yep. The sister ship of Yamato was the Musashi. They were the biggest (74,000 tons) and best armed (9-18.1 in. main guns) ever produced, and neither survived the war. Both were sunk by American carrier-based aircraft.
And yep, both, Germany and Japan, were already stretching resources as it was. Once the Allies started to bomb the heck out of everything they could related to war production, not only was access cut off to the resources, but, they couldn't have done anything with them even if they obtained them, 'cause all their production facilities were being laid to waste, as well.
Both, especially Germany, produced
A LOT of superior equipment. We just, eventually, vastly outproduced them in every way, and overran them.
Anyway, so many factors were in play in all of it that, ultimately, it could have very well gone the other way, or taken many more years and lives to force then into surrender.
Let's face it. Bottom lines is, there is nothing pretty about war. It sucks.
My interest in WWII comes from the fact that it was relatively recent, and there were actually so many technological advances (both good and bad) that came into being as a result of it, and that it was indeed a World War in almost every sense of the term. Scant few regions of the world were not affected by it, or it's outcome, in some way.
OK, that's probably enough of that here. Sorry for boring or annoying any of y'all.
We might need to start our own thraed based (loosely) on the Disney Studios role in the war effort.
