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Author | : Patricia Reilly Giff |
Publisher | : Yearling |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2008-12-24 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307549372 |
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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.
Author | : Warren Benjamin Kidder |
Publisher | : K L F Publishing |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Marion F. Wilson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Willow Run |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Sarah Jo Peterson |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2013-05-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022602542X |
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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.
Author | : Randy Hotton and Michael W.R. Davis |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1467117293 |
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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.
Author | : Albert J. Baime |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0547719280 |
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Chronicles Detroit's dramatic transition from an automobile manufacturing center to a highly efficient producer of World War II airplanes, citing the essential role of Edsel Ford's rebellion against his father, Henry Ford.
Author | : Joshua Stoff |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 1993-12-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 048627618X |
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Over 250 rare photographs depict one of the greatest industrial feats of all time: America's massive production of World War II fighters and bombers. An introduction and captions outline the history.
Author | : Marion Wilson |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 149 |
Release | : 2016-10-30 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0472752014 |
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The Story of Willow Run is a success story—the life history of a small community, the "Bomber City" that had sprung up in World War II. It tells what a group of returning veterans and their families did to make into a progressive, thriving settlement. Who are the people of Willow Run? What were their needs, their problems? How did they accept and meet the challenge of making a home town for themselves? Marion F. Wilson tells their story—a tribute to American pioneering courage. Today, Willow Run Village is growing into a permanent community, proud of its schools, its churches, playgrounds, shops, and homes—and, above all, its community spirit.
Author | : Michaela Adam |
Publisher | : Willow Run Stables |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2021-08-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781737344490 |
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Born and raised in the city, Michaela always harbored an enthusiasm for farm life and horses, but zero knowledge of how cisterns operate, or how to successfully employ pasture management on farm land. Join her as she shares her adventure of farmification: acquiring a Boone County, Kentucky horse farm, and attempting to operate the hobby farm with no tractor and no truck, but with plenty of coaching from local friends, and a forgiving sense of humor.
Author | : Debbie Mason |
Publisher | : Forever |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2021-06-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1538716984 |
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Fall in love with thelatest Highland Falls romance about a single mom-to-be's surprise delivery and the undercover FBI agent who rescues her and her heart in the small town of Highland Falls. Single mom-to-be Sadie Gray will do anything to find her younger brother before the law catches up with him. Even if it means returning home to the small town of Highland Falls with a baby due any moment. But when that moment comes sooner than expected, and Sadie finds herself stranded on the top of a mountain—in labor--she couldn’t be more grateful for the park ranger who finds her and helps deliver her daughter safely. Soon they’ve formed a tight friendship, and while he may be hinting at more, Sadie isn’t planning to stick around after she finds her brother. FBI agent Chase Roberts wasn’t looking for love when he agreed to go undercover as a park ranger to find an on-the-run informant. But he can’t help being drawn to beautiful, warm-hearted Sadie and her sweet baby daughter. He’s always longed to put down roots and start a family. But how can he hope to keep Sadie’s trust when she finds out that his job is to arrest the brother she’s been looking for? Includes the bonus novella A Wedding on Honeysuckle Ridge for the first time in print!