Ian Toll: “The Economic War Machine Supporting WWII in the Pacific”

How did the US so quickly produce such an enormous war machine during WW II, deploying huge military forces – men, weapons, and supplies efficiently across the expanse of the Pacific, an ocean that covers 30% of the earth’s surface, to win the largest naval battle in history?

We are pleased to welcome, and hope to hear some answers – financial and global –  to that remarkable period pre-dating current time from military historian, Ian Toll. Regarded as a great story-teller. Toll has written The Pacific Trilogy, reported to be “military history at its best.”  His highly praised three-volume history ot the War narrates combats on the sea, in the air, on beaches, a horrific time at sea, and major challenges to power in Washington and Tokyo.  It has captivated readers of history and those of us who are ever-grateful for our American lives and developments of the late 20th Century.  TWILIGHT OF THE GODS, War in the Western Pacific, 1944-45, is the final volume of the epic history.  It covers the period led by Douglas MacArthur in the Philippines, featuring kamikaze attacks, B-29 bombers, the atomic blasts of that terrible defying, yet successful strategic and diplomatic time.  A victory that won our US future for recent years.

Toll is a graduate of St. George’s School, Georgetown University and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.