The Year of Peril: America in 1942, Campbell - Incomplete

   After Pearl Harbor, the US faced a world war with an army that a few years previously had been smaller than Portugal's. It trained with a 1903 Springfield bolt action rifle. Our air forces were a tenth of Germany's and our world class navy had suffered terrible losses on December 7th. There was a palpable fear that the US homeland would be attacked. A month later, in a historic State of the Union address, FDR vowed to bury the Axis Powers by massively outproducing them.  His plans frightened many who were concerned about a centralized government overwhelming democracy and capitalism. Nonetheless, the nation quickly converted to a wartime footing and began producing planes, tanks and ships.

  I gave up on this book early on when, in a few pages, it referred to 'Engine' Charlie Wilson as the CEO of GE, and stated that Rommel reached the Suez Canal. Wilson was at GM, and Rommel never made it past El-Alamein.