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What the jeep symbolized in World War II was not cutting-edge technology,
吉普在二戰中的象征不在于先進的技術
although it was a four-wheel-drive vehicle,
盡管它是四輪驅動
so it was very capable,
功能強大
but what the jeep really showed was the power of American manufacturing.
而在于吉普真正展示了美國的制造能力
Designed by Bantam and produced by Willys-Overland and Ford,
由班塔姆公司設計，威利斯越野和福特兩家汽車公司制造
three jeeps are produced every four minutes, by the end of the war.
到戰爭末期 每四分鐘就可以造三輛吉普
Over the course of the war,
在戰爭過程中
we deployed over 600,000 jeeps.
我們總共制造了60萬輛吉普
To fly around this open vehicle at top speed was just something every American boy wanted to grow up to do.
開著這種敞篷車全速飛馳是每個美國男孩子長大后的夢想
To this day, I mean,part of the boom in SUVs that we saw was that notion that you want a vehicle that can go anywhere, that can do anything.
直到今天，我們之所以能見證SUV的迅速發展是因為人們想要一輛無處不及、無所不能的車
That's a very American spirit
那是典型的美國精神
and it really started with the jeep.
而這一切都始于吉普
Jeeps, tanks and every other weapon of war
吉普、坦克及其他每件戰爭武器
will be produced in record numbers.
都按照記錄編號來制造
But America's best-kept secret weapon of World War II has yet to be revealed.
然而美國在二戰中的絕密武器尚未登場
America sets to work.
美國全民投入工作
The plan: overwhelm the enemy through mass production.
計劃是: 通過大量生產 遠超敵軍
88,000 tanks.7,333 ships.
八萬八千輛坦克，7333艘戰船
20 million rifles and small arms...
兩千萬支來福槍和輕武器
and 40 billion bullets produced in four years.
400億枚子彈全都是在四年內生產的
43 million men are registered for combat service,
4300萬人登記為戰斗勤務
but America needs more manpower.
但美國需要更多的人力
The answer is the best-kept secret weapon of World War II.
解決方法就是二戰中的絕密武器
It was actually the women back in this nation that were the ones working in the factories,
實際上就是國內的婦女們，她們在工廠里辛苦工作
that were putting the tanks together,
組裝坦克
building the ships, building the airplanes.
建造船只和飛機
You know, so they are actually the ones that,
所以，實際上是她們
logistically, won the war for us.
在后勤方面為我們贏得了戰爭
