WW2 Tank Factory

[Richard]

^ where was that tank factory built?

Interesting how April of that year as Chrysler was coming online to support the war effort,85,000 Ford employees walked off the job.

They leverage a world in turmoil to demand more money.

When they say there was a time the county became United for a common cause,it has never really happened.

[MikeM]

^ where was that tank factory built?

Van Dyke at 11 1/2 Mile Road.

[Henry Whalley]

Van Dyke at 11 1/2 Mile Road.

Throughout the war, my dad worked the midnight shift at the tank plant. He rode streetcars and buses from Hamtramck seven days a week. Born in 1909, he was too young for WW1 and too old for WW2. Though he was required to register for the draft in 1939, he was never called up.

He had no heel spurs, was a faithful, loving husband and father, held liberal ideals, and wasn't a fascist-loving clown like Richard the Turd.

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Speaking of fifth columnists, Ford supported Hitler and didn't unionize until June 20, 1941.

Meanwhile, the UAW's policy was zero strikes during the war.

Richard the Turd, whose brain spins like the lights in a disco, tassels in a strip club, or felony counts in Trump Towers, is unable to make distinctions that are natural to stable intellects.

P.S. My uncle had a farm one mile north of the tank plant.

P.P.S. There was a barracks on government property south of the tank plant where German POWs lived. The barracks were visible from Van Dyke.

[oladub]

Speaking of fifth columnists, Ford supported Hitler and didn't unionize until June 20, 1941.

Meanwhile, the UAW's policy was zero strikes during the war.

^Personal insults removed^

This must be how Ford supported Hitler: I looked up Ford's WWII record. Ford broke ground in 1940 to build aircraft engines at Rouge. The Rouge plant also provided amphibious jeeps, armor plating and superchargers. In addition to building aircraft, other Ford plants built over 277,000 vehicles for the war effort including 32 ton M-4 tanks, anti tank destroyers, armored vehicles, and general purpose Willys vehicles, and 13,000 amphibious reconnaissance vehicles. By September 1942, Ford had begun flying off planes and produced over 87,000 by the end of the war including B-24's built in Ypsilanti and over 57,000 airplane engines. The American Legion gave its Distinguished Service award to Ford for its contributions to the rehabilitation of service veterans.

[Henry Whalley]

...This must be how Ford supported Hitler:

Notwithstanding your claims, it's well-established fact that Henry Ford and Hitler were a mutual admiration society. Ford probably was an honorary grand dragon of the Amerika Deutscher Bund. All production at Willow Run was under the auspices of the War Production Board. The FBI surely kept close tabs on Ford throughout the war effort. He may have had his good qualities, such as opposing American involvement in the family squabble that was the First World War.

P.S. A year after he received the Nobel Peace Prize, the notorious war criminal Henry Kissinger also received the American Legion's Distinguished Service Medal.

[Richard]

Van Dyke at 11 1/2 Mile Road.

In the Dana building ? I see there is a “Tank Ave “ next to it lol

[Lowell]

It’s a largely untold story that the World War II years in Detroit were filled with strikes. Labor had new strength in those days, and if the companies were going to make big profits off the war workers wanted their share.

Not all the strikes were economic such as when racists at the Packard plant led a wildcat strike when African-American workers were permitted to work what was considered a “white” job. This proceeded and likely precipitated the 1943 race riot. That did more damage to the war effort than any strike by far.

^ where was that tank factory built?

Interesting how April of that year as Chrysler was coming online to support the war effort,85,000 Ford employees walked off the job.

They leverage a world in turmoil to demand more money.

When they say there was a time the county became United for a common cause,it has never really happened.

[Henry Whalley]

It’s a largely untold story that the World War II years in Detroit were filled with strikes. Labor had new strength in those days, and if the companies were going to make big profits off the war workers wanted their share.

You may be correct about wildcat strikes, Lowell. But I've read that the policy at Solidarity House was zero called strikes during the war.

Steve Babson's book is a reliable source IMHO. I'll double-check there. When did the Packard workforce unionize?

[Henry Whalley]

You may be correct about wildcat strikes, Lowell.

1943-Packard-Motor-Company-strike.pdf [[motorcities.org)