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Your Reply: HTML is OFF UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by Rich: [B] No, I am not, I am simply stating the realities of the situation. In 1942 it was unclear whether or not the US would be able to wrest air superiority from the axis. As a result FDR meddled - as was his wont - in manpower and equipment mobilization plans. Priorities were assigned to an expansion of AAF power much beyond prewar plans, and along with that plan went a comparable expansion of base defense capability, i.e., antiaircraft defense. As a result, 811 antiaircraft battalions were planned, including nearly 400 gun battalions, a number that wasn't reduced until the October 1943 Troop Basis was issued. Now the basic equipment - not including replacements - of those battalions required about 6,400 90mm gun tubes, [b]but despite the prioritization allotted, only 3,443 guns had been completed by the end of 1942.[/b] Quite simply, there wasn't sufficient capacity to build more tht quickly and only the curtailment of the AA program allowed capacity to be shifted to producing 90mm for TD and tank use. The alternative would have been to mobilize industry even more rapidly than was done, which would have been possible given that the US never fully mobilized her total industrial capacity. Of course, that would have had potential postwar ramifications, while not ensuring that anything different - with respect to tank development and deployment - would have occurred. [/B][/QUOTE]
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