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The History of the Chrysler Tank Armory
In the 30s, America had 300 likely outdated fighter aircraft and needed to do 10,000 tanks. A factory in Detroit makes more tanks than all of Germany ever made in its entire Nazi career. "It's almost incomprehensible to imagine how this worked," says historian David Frum.
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