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We’ve put 44 million man-hours in the air! Cadillac parts for Allison engines WWII 1944

We’ve put 44 million man-hours in the air! Cadillac parts for Allison engines WWII 1944

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We’ve put 44 million man-hours in the air! Cadillac Parts on Allison engines for Lockheed Aircraft.
It was in March of 1939—nearly three years before Pearl Harbor—that Cadillac, working in cooperation with the Army Air Forces, accepted its original arms assignment. It called for volume production of vital precision parts and assemblies for the Allison, America’s first and foremost aviation engine of liquid-cooled design…
Life Magazine, February 14, 1944. 

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World War II Cadillac advertisements are among the most iconic of thousands published in the USA.

On January 16, 1942, 39 days after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt, with an executive order, created the War Production Board (WPB) to convert peacetime industrial production to meet the needs of the war, along with setting priorities and prohibiting the manufacture of non-essential goods.

Only 55 days after automobile production ended, Cadillac delivered the first tank. Just 17 days later, the second was shipped. Production was beginning to roll and soon to become a flood.

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World War II Cadillac advertisements are among the most iconic of thousands published in the USA.

On January 16, 1942, 39 days after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt, with an executive order, created the War Production Board (WPB) to convert peacetime industrial production to meet the needs of the war, along with setting priorities and prohibiting the manufacture of non-essential goods.

Only 55 days after automobile production ended, Cadillac delivered the first tank. Just 17 days later, the second was shipped. Production was beginning to roll and soon to become a flood.

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