I was just sitting here thinking. I watched a video someone posted about p-47's the other day. It blew my mind. I guess I have taken technology for granted. I wonder if the planes we have today are really as great of a technological achievement as the ones we had 70 years ago. I mean think about this: today we have complicated computer simulations to model EVERYTHING about the design..before there is even a prototype! Back in the day they had freaking blue prints...paper...wind tunnels and little models. I mean I am no expert on this stuff, but I did think about this stuff. I hope you can get what I am saying. I guess I am just in awe of engineering and precision. How the hell did they pull this toejam off without computers? I guess the same could be said for the cotton gin or the Antikythera mechanism or other such things. Being an idiot at math...I am absolutely in awe of engineers. no edibles..just swag. <S> 
Even during WW2 there was a Tech revolution. Think about it? LO and stealth first became a reality during the war. Proximity fuses, wire guided anti-ship bombs, IRBM ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, self guiding torpedos "FIDO" and I believe the Germans made them to. Jet airplanes, atomic bombs, long range heavy Bombers, pressurized interiors of airplanes, advanced radars and naval gunnery systems, sarin and soman, radar guided night fighters, code breaking, flight guidance systems....and the list goes on.
Much of what we have today, and dream of for tomorrow, are advances of tech that first appeared in WW2. Modern "Hyper War" has its roots in WW2, tho of course few back then could probably have dreamed of whats available today. Still the 8 years of war saw an incredible maturation of technology.
Winston Churchill was an avid tech geek. Nothing was to "hair brained" for him to want to back it and was probably the first modern world leader to believe without doubt that he with the best technology would win a war.
