1940s Frigidaire factories converted to wartime production

[Jon]

This video from the 1940s details how factories owned by Frigidaire, then a subsidiary of General Motors, were converted from producing "electric refrigerators" to manufacturing propellor blades for WWII planes.

We often hear the quote stating that "WWII was won with British intelligence, American steel, and Russian blood." Russia's greatest contribution was the 26 million lives it laid down. The British were legendary for their foreign intelligence, most notably for Alan Turing's deciphering of the Enigma machine. But the Americans out-manufactured everyone.

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