Importance Of Logistics In The Second World War

During the Second World War the importance of logistics was of key importance for the eventual Allied victory over the Axis Powers. The Allies from the very beginning understood the importance of logistics and while the U.S. was incapable of diving into and intentional war poured an abundance of support towards other countries in the fight against Hitler’s Nazi war machine. Once the U.S. was able formally join the Grand Alliance, the development of a highly sophisticated logistical system allowed for support with equipment, such as tanks, small vehicles, air craft, weaponry and, munitions, not to mention men. The critical importance of air power is also dually noted and described in two separate phases, the initial and the evolution of air …show more content…
Additionally, are the effects air power had on both the Allies side as well as the Axis side. Furthermore, specifically pin pointing the changes that arose during the course of the war. Logistics played a substantial part of the war for both sides and enabled both the Axis and Allied powers to fight a treacherous six-year war. Who logistics favored more is undoubtedly the Allied powers as Josef Stalin believed that if not for the machines and manufacturing that the United States was capable of there would have been no victory for the …show more content…
battleship fleet stationed at Pearl Harbor, displaying the complete might of surprise and aviation. In addition to the overall inception of the use and importance of air power we see more strategic bombing in both Japan by the Americans and in Germany by the British and the Soviets. This increase in the usage of strategic bombing came about as means of affective warfare as well as a way to destroy enemy morale. In Japan, after the effectiveness of the island hopping campaigns the U.S. forces finally get a hold of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, which enabled their air power to be in close proximity of the Japanese mainland. With this newfound advantage the U.S. forces began to fire bomb large cities like Kobe and Tokyo. We also see the increased usage of Kamikazes on the Japanese’s behalf, the success that was associated with the Kamikaze was the ability for an entire aircraft to take out a much larger entity perhaps a ship, large vehicle or another aircraft once it had been taken out of the fight. These attacks were demoralizing for U.S. forces and appeared senseless and barbaric, through their western perspective. In Europe the United States Air Force and the British Royal Air Force had out grown the Luftwaffe after the Germans were incapable of sustaining the creation of new aircraft and fuel up the planes once they had lost large amounts of industrial territory from the