Detroit's Wartime Industry: Arsenal of Democracy

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Detroit's Wartime Industry: Arsenal of Democracy

Just as Detroit symbolizes the U.S. automobile industry, during World War II it also came to stand for all American industryâ€™s conversion from civilian goods to war material. The label â€œArsenal of Democracyâ€ was coined by Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt in a fireside chat radio broadcast on December 29, 1940, nearly a year before the United States formally entered the war. Here is the pictorial story of one Detroiterâ€™s unique leadership in the miraculous speed Detroitâ€™s mass-production capacity was shifted to output of tanks, trucks, guns, and airplanes to support Americaâ€™s victory and of the struggles of civilians on the home front.

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