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  • It was about resource management. The Germans didn’t have a lot of oil to use on massive amounts of tanks, so they built really strong tanks that could devastate the enemy and then resupply. This also ties into why they didn’t have as many trucks and forklifts. What the Germans were able to accomplish was impressive given the resources they had.

    What the US could produce was on an entirely different level though once they switched to a wartime economy. They also had different constraints, it had to be lighter to be loaded into a ship in one piece. It had to be reliable or easily serviceable because it wasn’t going to be able to get back to the US easily. A lot of things the US produced were more disposable because they weren’t limited by oil or steel, but by the size of ship cranes and ocean transport.