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Re: Planning a Road Trip Across 1940s America
Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2023 2:31 am
by Retributarr
Kerensky wrote: ↑Thu Mar 02, 2023 10:45 pm
Oh very interesting locations. How could I forget Fort Knox.
These are great ideas for locations that might come up... I mean... that I would like to visit when I turn on my time machine for my road trip.
Thanks!
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Re: Planning a Road Trip Across 1940s America
Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2023 11:41 am
by makoto14
I read Arsenal of Democracy and Freedoms Forge which outline how the head of GM and Kaiser basically turned the US into one giant military factory. Especially interesting was Kaiser who built the landing ships the landed on Normandy and the escort carriers that beat Japan. At one point his 4 main ships yards were producing a new ship every 2 weeks. Ford and GM in detroit were also interesting, ford built the b-24 bombers and GM built the shermans in and around detroit in their auto plants.
Re: Planning a Road Trip Across 1940s America
Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2023 1:06 pm
by Sequester Grundleplith, MD
makoto14 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 04, 2023 11:41 am
I read Arsenal of Democracy and Freedoms Forge which outline how the head of GM and Kaiser basically turned the US into one giant military factory. Especially interesting was Kaiser who built the landing ships the landed on Normandy and the escort carriers that beat Japan. At one point his 4 main ships yards were producing a new ship every 2 weeks. Ford and GM in detroit were also interesting, ford built the b-24 bombers and GM built the shermans in and around detroit in their auto plants.
I think the Ford assembly line for the b-24s, Willow Run, was the largest single building in the world at that time
Re: Planning a Road Trip Across 1940s America
Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2023 4:04 am
by Moniker
Another one.
Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland - army ordnance testing facility
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberdeen_Proving_Ground