FORD AUTO PLANT DURING THE WW2-non valk

[DIGGER]

THIS IS AMAZING..........Ford converted his auto plants into bomber plants and turned out a bomber every 55 minutes......amazing.  

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[rmrc51]

Why is it that I doubt we could accomplish the same level of manufacturing today,,,. 

Great video!

[DIGGER]

Why is it that I doubt we could accomplish the same level of manufacturing today,,,. 

Great video!

yeah.....this was done back when America was Great

[hubcapsc]

Why is it that I doubt we could accomplish the same level of manufacturing today,,,. 

I'm not sure. We had a crappy economy before WWII, and our Army was downsized greatly
after WWI, through the 1930s...

-Mike

[Chrisj CMA]

Why is it that I doubt we could accomplish the same level of manufacturing today,,,. 

Great video!

yeah.....this was done back when America was Great

America is still great and we have the most skilled workers with the best work ethic in the world.  Granted there are less of these great workers and more of the mediocre ones since our own government has many believing we arent great any more......If we can get the government out of our way and out of the business of controlling everything they can, we will be great again, because we still are THE GREATEST

[The Anvil]

People forget that before WWII this country was still largely a backwater in the mind of the rest of the world. For that matter our place as a superpower was far from assured before WWII but our involvement in that war, more than any other factor, cemented our status. This country's been through tougher times that we're seeing right now. What determines our future course is how we respond.

I took a ride in a Libby several years back. You know those neat, roll-top desk bombay doors? If a man of normal size were to step on them they'd open right up on you and crap you out into the sky. The doors were designed to be noting more than movable aerodynamic fairings so that the bombs could be dropped whether the doors functioned or not. Cool plane.

[Jess Tolbirt]

the sound of those engines gives me goose bumps every time i hear them...

[old2soon]

18 or 20 years ago a B-24 and a B-17 flew over my house in Colorado. All these years later and i STILL remember the noise and vibration. My imagination can not conjure up the noise and vibration of a Thousand bomber raid. THAT particular sound of 1000 bombers had to be awe inspiring. Even today would not want to be on the receiving end of a WWII bomber. The most air craft engines i have heard at one time was on the U S S Yorktown C V S-10. These were 9 cylinder radials gas powered air craft with 2 engines per plane. If memory serves we launched 12 or 13 planes off of nam. On the way home to the U S of A the ship was a day out and we launched all 22 airplanes and 11 or 12 helicopters. Talk about noise and vibration!! RIDE SAFE.

[hubcapsc]

18 or 20 years ago a B-24 and a B-17 flew over my house in Colorado. All these years later and i STILL remember the noise and vibration. My imagination can not conjure up the noise and vibration of a Thousand bomber raid.

I've often tried to imagine the sound of the Rebel Yell ringing a battlefield the size of
Chancellorsville...

James Caldwell described this occurrence at the battle of the wilderness...

While we were closing up here, a pace at a time, the grandest vocal exhibition
took place that I have ever heard. Far up on the right of the Confederate line
a shout was raised. Gradually it was taken up and passed down, until it reached
us. We lifted it, as our turn came, and handed it to the left, where it went
echoing to the remotest corner of Ewell's corps. This was done once with
powerful effect. Then rumors of various things, but always speaking of good
fortune that had befallen the Confederates, sped along the line with
characteristic swiftness. Again the shout arose on the right--again it
rushed down upon us from a distance of perhaps two miles-again  we caught
it and flung it joyously to the left, where it only ceased when the last
post had huzzahed. And yet a third time this mighty wave of sound rang
along the Confederate lines. The effect was beyond expression.
It seemed to fill every heart with new life, to inspire every nerve with might
never known before . Men seemed fairly convulsed with the fierce enthusiasm
and I believe that if at that instant the advance of the whole army upon Grant
could have been ordered, we should have swept [him] into the very Rappahannock."'

I cannot even imagine the noise and vibration of a Thousand B-24s, but I bet the
people they were coming for were terrified.

-Mike

[Hoser]

18 or 20 years ago a B-24 and a B-17 flew over my house in Colorado. All these years later and i STILL remember the noise and vibration. My imagination can not conjure up the noise and vibration of a Thousand bomber raid. THAT particular sound of 1000 bombers had to be awe inspiring. Even today would not want to be on the receiving end of a WWII bomber. The most air craft engines i have heard at one time was on the U S S Yorktown C V S-10. These were 9 cylinder radials gas powered air craft with 2 engines per plane. If memory serves we launched 12 or 13 planes off of nam. On the way home to the U S of A the ship was a day out and we launched all 22 airplanes and 11 or 12 helicopters. Talk about noise and vibration!! RIDE SAFE.

When I was in the Navy in the sixties, we launched and recovered 2 engine recip  S2Fs and F9 jets for twelve hours 5 days  a week every month for qualifying with student pilots  on the Lexington off NAS corpus Christi.  I was on flight deck duty, The s2s were from Corpus, the jets from Kingsville and Beeville NAS. You are correct about the noise!    Hoser
 

[RP#62]

I used to maintain a handful of DC-3's.  I remember many times seeing engines with Buick-GM nameplates on them that had been produced during the war.
-RP

[old2soon]

Durn hoser-you be an ex airedale also?? Talk about a small world. At the time V S 23s main birds were the Grumman S2 D and Es. Got a few hours checking locking pins after un folding the wings. Makes me wonder if i could still walk into fifty or sixty mile an hour winds with a chock and two chain tie downs?? Nope no frikin way!! Most likely get my fat a$$ blown overboard. RIDE SAFE.