Watch as the last Ford V-8 car rolls off the assembly line on February 10, 1942, surrounded by workers and a patriotic sign signaling the switch to jeep production for WWII. Hurricane Milton ...

Here are some milestones at Ford’s Chicago Assembly Plant during its first ... A began rolling off the line at both the Dearborn and Chicago plants. World War II: Chicago Assembly Plant shifts ...

The industrial might of the American economy during World War II earned its reputation ... complete bomber, which Ford shipped to either Fort Worth or Tulsa for final assembly.

Ford's innovative assembly line technique sped up production ... stepped up in response to the shortage of male labor during World War II. In the car industry, the population of female employees ...

The company then built a 4-story brick assembly ... government again during WOLRD WAR II and later was sold. In 1976 the building was placed on the U.S. Dept. of Interior's Natl. Register of Historic ...

Fain, on his bullhorn, noted that the parts center outside Detroit was previously part of the country’s so-called “arsenal of democracy,” and the site where Ford assembly line workers put ...

On May 26, 1940, Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of more than 338,000 Allied troops from Dunkirk, France, began during World War II. In 1864, President Abraham Lincoln signed a measure creating the ...