Interesting to hear you say that. About 6 years ago, I had a conversation with an O-6 with a pretty big perspective on history. I thought at the time and still do that more new 4th generation fighters with the technology upgrades offered on the F-22 and F-35 would be money better spent to buy more airplanes as opposed to the small numbers of 22s we ended up with and the likely budget fights that will eventually cut the F-35 planned buy. He asked me what one of Nazi Germany's biggest weaknesses was? I pondered for a moment and thought the answer was Hitler's inept meddling with the Generals and their plans. The answer he told me was the Germans were masters at building technologically superior weapons in insufficient numbers to matter. Then I had the ah-ha moment when I realized that today the U.S. is building the same kind of "wunder waffen." We did not out tech the Germans, we out produced them. I remember reading once that one factory building B-24s at one point managed to get 1 plane per hour off the assembly line. I can't remember if it was a Consolidated plant or one of the auto plants that had retooled to help with the war effort.