Hermann Göring Laughed At B-17 Production — Then America Built 12,731 Flying Fortresses

Hermann Göring Laughed At B-17 Production — Then America Built 12,731 Flying Fortresses

When Hitler's second-in-command laughed at American bomber production in 1942, he sealed Germany's fate. This is the untold story of the greatest industrial miscalculation in military history.
October 1942: Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring throws an intelligence report across his desk, roaring with laughter. The Americans claim they'll mass-produce thousands of B-17 Flying Fortresses? "Pure fantasy," he scoffs. "They'll discover that strategic bombers require precision engineering, not assembly line tricks."
Three years later: 12,731 Flying Fortresses have systematically demolished the Third Reich from 25,000 feet.
Discover the incredible true story of how:
Boeing engineer Philip Johnson revolutionized heavy bomber production, building aircraft on moving assembly lines that "experts" said were impossible
American factories produced more B-17s in ONE MONTH than Germany's entire bomber program managed in a year
Women who'd never touched an aircraft became precision engineers outperforming skilled craftsmen
A single Seattle factory produced 12 four-engine bombers DAILY while Nazi intelligence insisted it was propaganda
From 42 bombers in 1940 to 12,731 by war's end—this is democracy's industrial triumph over tyranny, the story of how free workers buried fascism under an unstoppable avalanche of American steel, and Hermann Göring's contemptuous laughter became history's most catastrophic miscalculation.
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