Description
Just as Detroit symbolizes the U.S. automobile industry, throughout World War II it also came to face for all American industry’s conversion from civilian goods to war subject material. The label “Arsenal of Democracy” was once coined by Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt in a fireside chat radio broadcast on December 29, 1940, nearly a year before the USA formally entered the war. Here is the pictorial story of 1 Detroiter’s unique leadership within the miraculous speed Detroit’s mass-production capacity was once shifted to output of tanks, trucks, guns, and airplanes to make stronger The us’s victory and of the struggles of civilians at the home front.