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America Mobilized to Fullest After Pearl Harbor Hit
AP Newsfeatures recounts how the United States rapidly mobilized after Pearl Harbor. It notes President Roosevelt’s call in 1941 to turn the nation into “the arsenal of democracy,” outlining goals like 50,000 planes per year, a two ocean navy, and an Army of 1,725,000 as industry ramped up to supply three million soldiers and a vast merchant marine. It mentions early production already reaching thousands of planes monthly and the looming threat of Japanese attack while war efforts accelerated.
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