Another area the Allies excelled in was the ability to build stuff....a lot of it. The Second World War more than any other war was a war of material attrition. This situtation was particularly acute in the Pacific where a secondary industrial power challenged the mightiest industrial base on earth.
The War in the Pacific simply put wasn't a fair fight and Japan's industrial infastructure back then simply wasn't up to the myriad demands of the war. During the 1930s, by a prodigious but an ill-planned and poorly organized effort, certain industries vital to Japan's war purposes had been built up. However, Japan's industrial base's footprint wasn't widened in the process. Thus, while total aircraft production was forced-fed into a 1300% increase from 1931 to 1941 this came at a price to other war vital industries such as electrial equipment in which production scarely increased by 30% between the war years of 1941 and 1944. Needless to say, exotic for the time technologies, like radar suffered and lagged as a result.
Those Japanese did at least have a decent torpedo tho. That was the USA's big oversight.
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