The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War by A.J. Baime

Author:A.J. Baime [Baime, A.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2014-06-03T00:00:00+00:00

Before the committee left, the senators posed for a ceremonial photo out on the airfield with a B-24 bomber towering over them, like a beast standing over its prey. Truman stood in the center holding his hat, and with the camera aimed, he finally allowed himself a smile. When the committee released its report, neither Edsel nor Sorensen could do the same.

Ford “had not produced at Willow Run a plane which was capable of use at the front,” the Truman Committee found. One line in the report cut Sorensen’s and Edsel’s souls as if with a jagged knife. “The production line was set up similar to an automobile assembly line,” it read. “This was probably a mistake.”

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