At the library I was determined to pick up a work of non-fiction this time. So I started off in the new arrivals section. In a pretty much eenie meenie miney moe manner I decided to go with Freedom’s Forge.
This turned out to be a pretty interesting read. I’ve read much on World War II, but thus far it had been from the battle point of view. This however was from the industry point of view which was pretty amazing to learn about.
To learn at the amazing amount of scale that was taking place in manufacturing in such a short period of time was pretty crazy. To go from practically no army to pumping our thousands upon thousands of planes a month was impressive.
I’m glad to see these guys get some attention. Much of what they did not only won the war but shaped how we live today in a big way.