The Ford motor

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Company stepped up to the plate in WW2
972 acres of farmland in Michigan was acquired

Along with an air field

A 3.5 million square foot factory was built


At peak capacity 1 bomber (B-24) rolled off the production line per hour in total Ford built 8645 bombers at that plant

That saw service over Europe and the far east

 

[nauseous]

At peak capacity 1 bomber (B-24) rolled off the production line per hour in total Ford built 8645 bombers

8,645 Hours = 360.2083 Days = 360 Days, 4 Hours, 59 Minutes and 59 Seconds

 

[transam]

The B 24s were the most mass produced aeroplane during the war

 

[IT Minion]

The B 24s were the most mass produced aeroplane during the war

Where do you get this tripe from?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Bf_109

The Bf 109 is the most produced fighter aircraft in history, with a total of 33,984 airframes produced from 1936 to April 1945

approximately 18,500 units – including 8,685 manufactured by Ford Motor Company – it holds records as the world's most produced bomber, heavy bomber, multi-engine aircraft, and American military aircraft in history.

It was the most produced US aircraft of the war, but there were more Spitfires built, more IL-2s, more FW190 and ME109s. It only just scrapes into the top 5. Ford didn't even produce half of the B24s, not sure they deserve that much horn blowing.

 

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

At peak capacity 1 bomber (B-24) rolled off the production line per hour in total Ford built 8645 bombers at that plant

That saw service over Europe and the far east

The later US bomber B-52 was used to bomb Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos with munitions that are still causing injuries to this day.

Total U.S. bomb tonnage dropped during: World War II = 2,057,244 tons Vietnam War = 7,078,032 tons (3-1/2 times WWII tonnage)
Bomb tonnage dropped during the Vietnam War amounted to 1,000 lbs. for every man, woman and child in Vietnam.
An estimated 3 million people were killed by the war, and over 1 million were wounded.
https://wikieducator.org/images/8/8b/VIETNAM_WAR_BACKGROUND.pdf

Laos is historically referred to as “Lan Xang,” the land of a million elephants. Today, it would be more accurate to call it the land of a million bombs.
the US military dropped 260 million cluster bombs – about 2.5 million tons of munitions – on Laos over the course of 580,000 bombing missions. This is equivalent to a planeload of bombs being unloaded every eight minutes, 24 hours a day, for nine years – nearly seven bombs for every man, woman and child living in Laos.
http://legaciesofwar.org/resources/books-documents/land-of-a-million-bombs/


The Vietnam War Is Over. The Bombs Remain.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/20/opinion/vietnam-war-agent-orange-bombs.html


U.S. B-52 bombers are diverted from their targets in South Vietnam to attack suspected communist base camps and supply areas in Cambodia for the first time in the war. President Nixon approved the mission–formally designated Operation Breakfast–at a meeting of the National Security Council on March 15. This mission and subsequent B-52 strikes inside Cambodia became known as the “Menu” bombings. A total of 3,630 flights over Cambodia dropped 110,000 tons of bombs during a 14-month period through April 1970. This bombing of Cambodia and all follow up “Menu” operations were kept secret from the American public and the U.S. Congress because Cambodia was ostensibly neutral.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-bombs-cambodia-for-the-first-time
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[Charlie George]

The later US bomber B-52 was used to bomb Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos with munitions that are still causing injuries to this day.

Total U.S. bomb tonnage dropped during: World War II = 2,057,244 tons Vietnam War = 7,078,032 tons (3-1/2 times WWII tonnage)
Bomb tonnage dropped during the Vietnam War amounted to 1,000 lbs. for every man, woman and child in Vietnam.
An estimated 3 million people were killed by the war, and over 1 million were wounded.
https://wikieducator.org/images/8/8b/VIETNAM_WAR_BACKGROUND.pdf

Laos is historically referred to as “Lan Xang,” the land of a million elephants. Today, it would be more accurate to call it the land of a million bombs.
the US military dropped 260 million cluster bombs – about 2.5 million tons of munitions – on Laos over the course of 580,000 bombing missions. This is equivalent to a planeload of bombs being unloaded every eight minutes, 24 hours a day, for nine years – nearly seven bombs for every man, woman and child living in Laos.
http://legaciesofwar.org/resources/books-documents/land-of-a-million-bombs/


The Vietnam War Is Over. The Bombs Remain.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/20/opinion/vietnam-war-agent-orange-bombs.html


U.S. B-52 bombers are diverted from their targets in South Vietnam to attack suspected communist base camps and supply areas in Cambodia for the first time in the war. President Nixon approved the mission–formally designated Operation Breakfast–at a meeting of the National Security Council on March 15. This mission and subsequent B-52 strikes inside Cambodia became known as the “Menu” bombings. A total of 3,630 flights over Cambodia dropped 110,000 tons of bombs during a 14-month period through April 1970. This bombing of Cambodia and all follow up “Menu” operations were kept secret from the American public and the U.S. Congress because Cambodia was ostensibly neutral.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-bombs-cambodia-for-the-first-time
​

Pol Pot transformed Cambodia into a one-party state called Democratic Kampuchea. Seeking to create an agrarian socialist society that he believed would evolve into a communist society, Pol Pot's government forcibly relocated the urban population to the countryside to work on collective farms. Pursuing complete egalitarianism, money was abolished and all citizens made to wear the same black clothing. Those the Khmer Rouge regarded as enemies were killed. These mass killings, coupled with malnutrition and poor medical care, killed between 1.5 and 2 million people, approximately a quarter of Cambodia's population, a period later termed the Cambodian genocide.
Just a random post like yours.

 

[conny]

8,645 Hours = 360.2083 Days = 360 Days, 4 Hours, 59 Minutes and 59 Seconds

You do have to allow them to have a tea break occasionally.

 

[noseall]

Stalins' Russia (USSR) produced T34 tanks in astonishing numbers (considering) and was instrumental in ending the war.

 

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

Pol Pot transformed Cambodia into a one-party state called Democratic Kampuchea. Seeking to create an agrarian socialist society that he believed would evolve into a communist society, Pol Pot's government forcibly relocated the urban population to the countryside to work on collective farms. Pursuing complete egalitarianism, money was abolished and all citizens made to wear the same black clothing. Those the Khmer Rouge regarded as enemies were killed. These mass killings, coupled with malnutrition and poor medical care, killed between 1.5 and 2 million people, approximately a quarter of Cambodia's population, a period later termed the Cambodian genocide.

Pol Pot was initially an instrument of US, armed, supported and financed bu US during Vietnam war.
As you point out, that didn't end well.

Not a random post. Showing how massive war industries are nothing to be proud of. They bring death, destruction and misery for millions of people.
For sure they also make a few people very rich, and allow despotic rulers to continue their despotic rule.

 

[Charlie George]

Stalins' Russia (USSR) produced T34 tanks in astonishing numbers (considering) and was instrumental in ending the war.

I agree,nowadays it would take the length of the war to build a prototype alone, never mind 85.000.

 

[Charlie George]

Pol Pot was initially an instrument of US, armed, supported and financed bu US during Vietnam war.
As you point out, that didn't end well.

I just gave you a fact about Cambodia,after you brought the country up in a post about Ford.
What you said above is true,but he began the genocide killing millions with Chinese support which is also true.[/QUOTE]

 

[transam]

The later US bomber B-52 was used to bomb Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos with munitions that are still causing injuries to this day.

Total U.S. bomb tonnage dropped during: World War II = 2,057,244 tons Vietnam War = 7,078,032 tons (3-1/2 times WWII tonnage)
Bomb tonnage dropped during the Vietnam War amounted to 1,000 lbs. for every man, woman and child in Vietnam.
An estimated 3 million people were killed by the war, and over 1 million were wounded.
https://wikieducator.org/images/8/8b/VIETNAM_WAR_BACKGROUND.pdf

Laos is historically referred to as “Lan Xang,” the land of a million elephants. Today, it would be more accurate to call it the land of a million bombs.
the US military dropped 260 million cluster bombs – about 2.5 million tons of munitions – on Laos over the course of 580,000 bombing missions. This is equivalent to a planeload of bombs being unloaded every eight minutes, 24 hours a day, for nine years – nearly seven bombs for every man, woman and child living in Laos.
http://legaciesofwar.org/resources/books-documents/land-of-a-million-bombs/


The Vietnam War Is Over. The Bombs Remain.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/20/opinion/vietnam-war-agent-orange-bombs.html


U.S. B-52 bombers are diverted from their targets in South Vietnam to attack suspected communist base camps and supply areas in Cambodia for the first time in the war. President Nixon approved the mission–formally designated Operation Breakfast–at a meeting of the National Security Council on March 15. This mission and subsequent B-52 strikes inside Cambodia became known as the “Menu” bombings. A total of 3,630 flights over Cambodia dropped 110,000 tons of bombs during a 14-month period through April 1970. This bombing of Cambodia and all follow up “Menu” operations were kept secret from the American public and the U.S. Congress because Cambodia was ostensibly neutral.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-bombs-cambodia-for-the-first-time
​

What has that got to do with Ford

 

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

I just gave you a fact about Cambodia,after you brought the country up in a post about Ford.
What you said above is true,but he began the genocide killing millions with Chinese support which is also true.

I'm not sure I agree with you about Chinese support.
As I recall, no-one nation was that bothered by the genocide going on in Cambodia. No-one nation was interested in intervening, except Vietnam.
Vietnam was the only country that was bothered about the deteriorating situation in Cambodia, and acted.
As I recall, Vietnam enjoyed the support of China through this period in history, although, I agree the Chinese - Vietnam concord was up and down like a bride's nightie throughout the 20th century.

 

[Charlie George]

Pol Pot was initially an instrument of US, armed, supported and financed bu US during Vietnam war.
As you point out, that didn't end well.

Not a random post. Showing how massive war industries are nothing to be proud of. They bring death, destruction and misery for millions of people.
For sure they also make a few people very rich, and allow despotic rulers to continue their despotic rule.

I also agree,but if Ford and similar companies only built cars for driving Miss Daisy during the war, the World would be a little bit different today.

 

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

What has that got to do with Ford

Pride and admiration of war machines is not necessarily a good thing.
War machines make a few people very rich and allow despotic rulers to continue with their despotic rule, causing misery, death and destruction for millions of people.