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Willow Run

2008-12-24 Juvenile Fiction
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Release : 2008-12-24
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 372/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Willow Run by : Patricia Reilly Giff

Download or read book Willow Run written by Patricia Reilly Giff. This book was released on 2008-12-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1944 Meggie Dillon’s life has been turned upside down by World War II. Her older brother Eddie enlisted and was shipped off to fight in Europe. And people say that anywhere else Grandpa would be turned in because he’s German, and people might think he’s a spy. Is it true? Could Grandpa be taken away? Meggie’s father has announced that they must help the war effort and move to Willow Run, Michigan, where he’ll work nights in a factory building important war planes that will help fight the enemy in Europe. Willow Run will be the greatest adventure ever, Meggie thinks. There she meets Patches and Harlan, other kids like her whose parents have come here to do their part in the war. And there she faces questions about courage, and what it takes to go into battle, like Eddie, and how to keep hope alive on the home front.

Willow Run

1995 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 1995
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Willow Run by : Warren Benjamin Kidder

Download or read book Willow Run written by Warren Benjamin Kidder. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Planning the Home Front

2013-05-22 History
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Release : 2013-05-22
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Planning the Home Front by : Sarah Jo Peterson

Download or read book Planning the Home Front written by Sarah Jo Peterson. This book was released on 2013-05-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Franklin Roosevelt declared December 7 to be a “date which will live in infamy”; before American soldiers landed on D-Day; before the B-17s, B-24s, and B-29s roared over Europe and Asia, there was Willow Run. Located twenty-five miles west of Detroit, the bomber plant at Willow Run and the community that grew up around it attracted tens of thousands of workers from across the United States during World War II. Together, they helped build the nation’s “Arsenal of Democracy,” but Willow Run also became the site of repeated political conflicts over how to build suburbia while mobilizing for total war. In Planning the Home Front, Sarah Jo Peterson offers readers a portrait of the American people—industrialists and labor leaders, federal officials and municipal leaders, social reformers, industrial workers, and their families—that lays bare the foundations of community, the high costs of racism, and the tangled process of negotiation between New Deal visionaries and wartime planners. By tying the history of suburbanization to that of the home front, Peterson uncovers how the United States planned and built industrial regions in the pursuit of war, setting the stage for the suburban explosion that would change the American landscape when the war was won.

The Story of Willow Run

1956 Willow Run
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Release : 1956
Genre : Willow Run
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Book Synopsis The Story of Willow Run by : Marion F. Wilson

Download or read book The Story of Willow Run written by Marion F. Wilson. This book was released on 1956. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Willow Run

2016 History
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Release : 2016
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 293/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Willow Run by : Randy Hotton and Michael W.R. Davis

Download or read book Willow Run written by Randy Hotton and Michael W.R. Davis. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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