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Show PLANT IS GIVEN Is i . WRr from thc lell In n i , Raymond Dan- Yo k t? SPltch t0 New K ,m,1S from Thionvil'le in ;wnn;-iWng a German "W " to c pTr with siave m turn out big guns for "Knlnst Allied armies We will not give details as to ZT Hke slav and T v l Wrk in the factories, an 1 P ,Ki0f Czechs' Ukrainians work ? ' W, 10 W6re comPenod to ' n! ayli8ht t0 dUSk' liVe(l ib. racks pasked like sardines and marched to and from their Place of labor. se wCnn'CSP0ndent says he has sec. Willow Run and the Chrysler lank Arsenal, but the former is n?n ,ViUle more impressive and p ran F n,y a little less than the GO-acre arsenal loaded with production belts, assembly lines overhead cranes and all the gadgets gad-gets of mass-production associated associat-ed with Detroit. Railroad cars on spurs inside the taM, ,., j wcic luau- ed with finished gun barrels for all the fronts and heavy guns were m all stages of manufacture. The correspondent makes the amazing assertion that in this one ordnance factory "which is only one of many similar uncharted ones", there were 48 highely-spec-ialized cutting and drilling ma-enmes. ma-enmes. This means little to the average man, but it can best be gauged by the fact, he says, "On D-day, the United States in all ils arsenals and at the Homestead Steel Mill had exactly twenty machines ma-chines of a comparable nature." This is a fact of tremendous importance. im-portance. Its significance is increased in-creased by the statement that the plant was duplicated on the east bank of the Moselle. Only a few weeks ago, these plans were turning turn-ing out munitions for the enemy. Others are hidden in unsuspecting places and, apparently, were undetected unde-tected by aerial reconnaissance. Naturally, this reminds us of the baseball commentary, "You can't hit 'em if you can't see 'em." |