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Willow Run
9781467117296
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%A pictoral history of Willow Run - a relative unknown location that became the world's most famous bomber factory during World War II.
In May 1940, Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt called for the production of 50,000 military airplanes. He then drafted the president of General Motors, William Knudsen, to mobilize industry in the United States. The automotive companies were called upon to produce a massive fleet of bombers, as well as tanks, trucks, guns, and engines. By the Willow Run, a sleepy little creek near Ypsilanti, Michigan, Ford Motor Company built the world's most famous bomber factory, which was the ultimate manifestation of the automotive industry's role in building armaments during World War II. By the spring of 1944, Willow Run was producing a four-engine B-24 bomber each hour on an assembly line.
Michigan in World War II
9781467147330
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Michigan POW Camps in World War II
9781625858375
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%During World War II, Michigan became a temporary home to six thousand German and Italian POWs.
At a time of homefront labor shortages, they picked fruit in Berrien County, harvested sugar beets in the Thumb, cut pulpwood in the Upper Peninsula and maintained parks and other public spaces in Detroit. The work programs were not flawless and not all of the prisoners were cooperative, but many of the men established enduring friendships with their captors. Author Gregory Sumner tells the story of these detainees and the ordinary Americans who embodied our highest ideals, even amid a global war.
Yankee Air Museum
9781467129046
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Remembering Michigan's Civil War Soldiers
9781467113458
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9780738551128
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Detroit in World War II
9781467119474
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Detroit in World War I
9781467114691
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Michigan and the Civil War
9781609491734
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Michigan undertook a rapid and robust response to Lincoln's call to arms during the Civil War and in many of its great battles. Read the much overlooked history in this volume.
With lively narration, telling anecdotes, and vivid battlefield accounts, Michigan and the Civil War tells the story as never before of Michigan's heroic contributions to saving the Union. Beginning with Michigan's antebellum period and anti-slavery heritage, the book proceeds through Michigan's rapid response to President Lincoln's call to arms, its participation in each of the War's greatest battles, portrayal of its most interesting personalities, and the concluding triumph as Custer corners Lee at Appomattox and the 4th Michigan Cavalry apprehends the fleeing Jeff Davis. Based on thorough and up-to-date research, the result is surprising in its breadth, sometimes awe-inspiring, and always a revelation given how contributions by the Great Lake State in the Civil War are too often overlooked, even by its own citizens.
Lenawee County and the Civil War
9781467135528
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Hamtramck
9780738551418
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