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10-21-2009, 09:39 PM
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| Life magazine WW2 "How Detroit Won the War" A photo series from Life magazine from WW2 WWII: How Detroit Won The War - Photo Gallery, 21 Pictures - LIFE
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10-21-2009, 09:49 PM
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| Cool Syscom, thanks for sharing.  
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10-22-2009, 08:59 PM
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| Every time someone posts something like this, I lose HOURS of my life!  Great post, Sys!
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10-25-2009, 12:57 AM
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| Great find Sys.  Wheels
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10-25-2009, 01:02 AM
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| Ive heard that the number of workers who were seriously injured or killed was staggering, almost like the factories themselves were battlegrounds.
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10-25-2009, 03:17 AM
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| Thanks, "LIFE" is such a great resource...   |
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10-25-2009, 07:24 AM
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| Great post Sys, after this I've been more interested in WW2 photographs by Life Magazine.
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10-28-2009, 10:59 AM
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| Pic 21 is a M3 Lee, not a Sherman. |
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10-28-2009, 12:37 PM
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| The scope of manufacturing in Detroit during WW2 always amazes me! It's mind boggling, I am sure the Axis felt the same way too!
__________________ Bryon O P-61 Black Widow-Mistress of the Night! "No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." George S. Patton "Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government." "Oh but if I went 'round sayin' I was Emperor, just because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away." |
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10-28-2009, 01:39 PM
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| great stuff thanks 
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10-28-2009, 02:08 PM
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10-28-2009, 02:16 PM
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| Very cool, indeed! Pity that the motor city has fallen on such hard times.
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10-28-2009, 04:34 PM
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| Good stuff, Sys. Many thanks. It was interesting seeing in the first picture, M3s and M4s on the same assembly line. Bogie had an M3. One of the best WW2 films IMO. Also interesting to see the racist signs in Michigan. One might have thought that only in the South would those signs be seen. |
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10-28-2009, 05:41 PM
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10-28-2009, 05:44 PM
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There were race riots in Detroit in 1943. I have to look up the details, but that would make for an interesting thread.
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