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    You know who designed the P-38 Lightning? Voters for F.D.R., an author of The New Deal, looking forward to the US entering the War against Nazis.

    [–]bjam27 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

    Wrong. LMT designed it in 1937.

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    What the fuck?

    Design, construction, adjustments to the design &c - 1937-41 (produced, '41-'45)

    In 1936, Hitler's party violated the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by sending German military forces into the Rhineland. German annexed of Sudetenland in 1938, and proceeded to invade Czech territories in March 1939, and then Poland in September. Newspapers in the US and Europe were discussing potential war with Germany during the late 1930s.