No Supply Chain Was More Complicated Than the Allies’ During WW2. How Did They Maintain It?

History Unplugged Podcast · Jul 28, 2022 · 53m

World War 2 was won due to Allied bravery, superior strategy, better technology, and more supplies. But the true unsung hero of the war effort is the Allied logistics network. The U.S. alone fed and supplied soldiers through a planet-spanning supply chain. It waged two wars on different continents at the same time. They kept supplied 98 divisions on a supply line that was well over 10,000 miles long: 7,000 from San Fran to Manila, 4000 from NYC to Normandy. About 1.9 million tons of supplies reached Britain in May 1944 alone.

The multi-step process from when supplies were built to when they…