Quality...

Skid Row Joe wrote:

jmtandem wrote:
If the Japanese had Airstream quality during WWII we would be speaking Japanese and driving Toyotas. Fortunately we had Airstream quality and won the war. Back then Americans were proud of what Made in America meant. And we now proudly drive Rams and Fords and GM products.

I believe you're incorrect about several things here. American product quality did not win the war. Using Airstream as an example doesn't make any sense in that discussion.

The massive supply chain of goods, higher skills, and luck won the war. The Japanese Zeros as an aircraft were superior in almost every way to the American built, heavier aircraft. The only thing that let the American pilots prevail were their superior skill levels of air to air combat.

I doubt whether we'd still be speaking Japanese, as Germany was the leading Axis Country.

FWIW, the supply chain of goods used in the American cars and trucks are heavily foreign based origin as well.

You're welcome for the history lesson. :)

Not sure who taught you history, but "The massive supply chain of goods, higher skills, and luck" had nothing to do with how the war with Japan ended.

By the time the atomic bomb was first successfully tested, the Germans had already been defeated. Japan, however, vowed to fight to the bitter end in the Pacific. MacArthur favored the continued conventional bombing and then an invasion of Japan called Operation Downfall. It was estimated to have a U.S. casualty rate of over 1 million, so Truman decided to use the A bomb.

The deployment of "Little Boy" over Hiroshima failed to elicit immediate Japanese surrender, so another one - a plutonium bomb called "Fat Man" was delivered over Nagasaki after the primary target of Kokura was obscured by cloud cover.

At noon on August 15, 1945, Japan surrendered. The formal agreement was signed on September 2, aboard the U.S. battleship Missouri, anchored in Tokyo Bay.

So they lost the war because we bombed the snot out of them.

I agree with the OP - RV quality stinks. I don't need a picture as I visited all the dealers within a 100 mile radius and settled for the best of the offerings.