Churchill's American Arsenal reveals how the technology, know-how,
and production power behind the victorious Allied partnership
during World War II extended beyond the battlefront and onto the
home-front. Many weapons and inventions were credited with winning
World War II, most famously in the assertion that the atomic bomb
"ended the war, but radar won the war." What is less well known is
that both airborne radar and the atomic bomb were invented in
British laboratories, but built by Americans. The same holds true
for many other American weapons credited with the Allied victory:
the P-51 Mustang fighter, the Liberty ship, the proximity fuze, the
Sherman tank, and even penicillin all began with British scientists
and planners, but were designed and mass-produced by American
engineers and factory workers. Churchill's American Arsenal
chronicles this vital but often fraught relationship between
British inventiveness and American technical might. At first,
leaders in each nation were deeply skeptical that such a
relationship could ever be successful. But despite initial
misunderstandings, petty jealousies, and continuing differences
over priorities, scientists and engineers on both sides of the
Atlantic found new and often ingenious ways to work together,
jointly creating the weapons that often became the decisive factor
in the strategy for victory that Churchill had laid out during the
earliest days of the conflict. While no single invention won the
war, without any one of them, the war could have been lost.
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