I find the comment about Henry Ford off base and insulting to the memory of
a good man to say the least. Henry was a pacifist and tried to keep us out
of WW ONE.
Ford made more Willys Jeeps than Willy's did in WW TWO for just one example.
The Willow Run plant was built and produced more bombers than almost any
other plant. It too was a FORD effort. Ford put auto know how into building
planes on an assembly line and built these large bombers faster than they
were building little fighters.
Undocumented Comments like yours about Ford do more to re-write history than
the actual facts.
>From a man who lived thru WW2.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Lawton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 1:28 PM
Subject: RE: OT: Americans rewriting history
> I would have a hard time believing this. Without digging into the
history
> books I know for a fact that Ford produced gliders during WWII in a
factory
> here in my small town in the UP of Michigan. I have always been under the
> impression that the Detroit automoblile assembly lines were, to a large
> extent, converted to support the war effort.
>
> Eric
>
> >From: "Lewis, Gerald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> >You can add Ford Motor Company to the list. Henry Ford was a fan of
> >Hitler.
> >I don't remember the details but Henry refused to make trucks, or
something
> >like that, to be used against Hitler.
> >
> >Jerry in Houston
> >
>
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