Here's an interesting site you might want to peruse: http://www.heritageresearch.com/databasewwiiindustry.htm
Interesting web site. I did notice Lafayette Indiana is missing. In 1938-1941 a large aluminum extrusion mill was built there. Provided many thousands of tons of aluminum tubes for aircraft frames.
Fascinating TA, thanks, you don't happen to have a list of ww2 museums in USA do you? would like to take some foreign friends here, already going for Washington DC Naval, would love to be able to see as many as possible when passing through part of country
If you are in the Washington DC are try to travel 80km south to Quantico. The US Marine Corps Museum there has been recentlly renovated. Lots of WWII items there.
how come i couldn't find procter and gamble in ohio? they produced artillery and small arms ammunition. not much difference between stuffing propellant powder into cartridges and shucking powdered detergent into cardboard boxes.
The boat yard at Manitowoc Wisconson is missing. They built submarines. One was returned there, restored, and is moored at the maritime museum. A great daytrip destination from Chicago. Conversely the Auburn Indiana auto factory is mentioned. It had been shut down since 1934 (Sorry no more Duisenbergs, or Cords) and was fairly limited in capacity as many of the tools had been removed. Nice museum there now, it and the Victory museum in Auburn are another great destination although both require a very full day.
Goosebumps: American Rhetoric: Franklin Delano Roosevelt - "The Arsenal of Democracy" And an old friend, Rosie:
Rosie, of course. Rockwell stated in a interview that he took most of the design elements from that painting from Michelangelos Sistine Chapel paintings. Interweaving male bone structure and muscles and female features, the counter poised limbs and the body being both in repose and elicitng tension. The flag background and airhose drawn in dynamic curves like the clouds and throne of the chapel painting. You kind of have the impression she is Gods archangel of industrial production about to crush Satans sorry efforts with a unstoppable weight of Liberty ships and three axle trucks.
Very cool link here, TA. Considering the importance I tend to place on logisitcs/production, this data base makes for some great reading. Interesting to note there was even a facility that got federal funding in the very-small town (Ashland) I now live in. I wouldn't have thought that to be the case, especially something like turbine parts. I wonder how many of the companies listed are still producing similar items...
Is their any data on the number or which factories, dormant prior to Great Britians demand for arms, helped launch the American work force from the depression to the industrial giant it is now? As well, after Churchill appointed Beaverbrook as minister of arms or production (per say) and when it became apparent to Churchill these arms would exceed capital available for purchase...did the insight of Beaverbrook, increasing orders, with the business knowledge obtained while Canadian publisher know and stated, that to close the factories on this issue, and laying off thousands of workers, after having just gained employment after a long depression and work drought...force Roosevelt to terms of the lend-lease, or continue albeit from creating mass unpopularity prior to elections??
