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True. The US was an industrial behemoth before even formal involvement in the War and was preposterously powerful in the area. They didn't have it diminished by bombing and gained manufacturing capacity instead of losing it.

While others were unscarred they never "stood up" by the standards of the world scale even if they were also industrialized.



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