HISTORY 124A Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: Dive Bomber, El Segundo, California, Douglas Aircraft Company
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The four freedoms by norman rockwell first appeared in the. In 1942, the federal government created the office of war. Information (owi): in the summer of 1943, the owi lost much of its credibility and funding. 1942, january war production board (wpb) established: created to produce the crushing superiority of war material. 1942, november the wpb establishes the controlled materials. Major government contracting agencies would not allocate three key materials: copper, aluminum, and steel. 1944 u. s. factories were producing a ship very and a plane every five minutes. 30 million people moved during the war. During the war, federal government invested at least billion in the western u. s. , in the air bases, training camps, and production. By 1944, the run was churning out a new b-24 every 63 minutes. During the war the run built 299,293 airplanes of various models, at a cost of some bullion, or nearly a quarter of the war"s billion munitions bill.
