It wasn't called the great Depression for nothing. The U.S armed forces were NOT the most formidable in the world by the end of Dec of '41. Fighting an economic depression AND fighting and winning WWII stacks up quite well with GW.
are you going to leave out France, Spain and the Dutch Republic that assisted Washington? And how they massacred the Iroquois up and down the east coast, from Florida to nova Scotia in the process leading up to and during the war?