Steve writes:

> Asking something like "Was there one single machine that decided the outcome
>  of WWII, and, if so, what was it?" is probably like throwing a match into a
>  fireworks factory, but the P-51 has always been my candidate.

Dwight D. Eisenhower said that the machine that won the war were the LSTs,
which were also called Higgins boats. "If Andy Higgins hadn't designed and
built these landing craft, we never could have gone in over an open beach. I
don't know how we ever would have gotten back into Europe," he told Stephen
Ambrose, Eisenhower's biographer, during the writing of his biography.

Wirt Atmar

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