And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Tuesday, December 20, 2022
Looking up an assembly line at Ford’s big Willow Run plant in Michigan, where B-24E (Liberator) bombers are being made in great numbers, February 1943.
Since it closed 77 years ago, and the youngest workers were perhaps 16, you do the math. Lord knows old uncle Adolph would've preferred it not be built, so how would you have done it?
Did the bombing campaign really inhibit Germany's war production? Seems there were more Me-109 fighters built in '44 than earlier years, for instance. IIRC, the -109 was the most produced aircraft in history, over 40k built.
How many of em are still alive?
ReplyDeleteSee what stolen money can do?
Since it closed 77 years ago, and the youngest workers were perhaps 16, you do the math. Lord knows old uncle Adolph would've preferred it not be built, so how would you have done it?
DeleteWhat stolen money do you refer to?
ReplyDeleteI think ghost is not a happy taxpayer
DeleteFriend ghost is not alone in that philosophy.
DeleteMy father got a new Ford in Malta after his first B-24 had battle damage. He said it was a sweet machine to fly.
ReplyDeleteYour father had stories, and I hope they were recorded. Bless those men.
DeleteStory is Adolf didn't believe America could put up machines in the numbers that his generals said, and they underestimated it as well.
ReplyDeleteAmerica's industrial might was key in winning WWII.
ReplyDeleteYes. That and the Axis fighting on three fronts.
DeleteDid the bombing campaign really inhibit Germany's war production? Seems there were more Me-109 fighters built in '44 than earlier years, for instance. IIRC, the -109 was the most produced aircraft in history, over 40k built.
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