Monthly Archives: March 2013

ARSENAL OF DEMOCRACY – HOW THE HOME FRONT MOBILIZED TO DEFEAT THE AXIS

LED BY DODGE-CHICAGO AND ITS B-29 ENGINE PRODUCTION

CHICAGO INDUSTRIES POWERED THE WAY TO VICTORY IN WORLD WAR TWO

DODGE-CHICAGO 1943 AERIAL VIEW
DODGE-CHICAGO 1943 AERIAL VIEW
FIVE ENGINES BUILT FOR EVERY B-29
FIVE ENGINES BUILT FOR EVERY B-29
2013 VIEW OF B-29 ENGINE TEST STACKS
FORMER B-29 ENGINE TEST STACKS

When told about the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill envisioned what would come; “Now at this moment I knew that the United States was in the war,up to the neck and in to the death.  So we have won after all !” Britain’s wartime leader knew that America’s immense manufacturing potential would lead the world to salvation.  The sleeping giant had awakened.

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