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Show Describes Nazi War Plant The difficult task of knocking Germany out of the war from the air is described by Raymond Daniell, in a dispatch to The New York Times from Thionville, France, describing a German "Willow Run" where a huge ordnance ord-nance plant was run partly with slave labor, to turn out big guns for use against Allied Armies. We will not give the details as to the women treated like slaves and compelled to work in the factories. They included Czechs, Ukrainians and Poles, who were compelled to work from daylight to dusk, lived in barracks packed like sardines and marched to and from their place of labor. The correspondent says that he has seen Williow Run and the Chrysler Tank Arsenal, but the former is only a little more impressive im-pressive and the latter only a little lit-tle less than the 60-acre arsenal loaded with production belts, assembly lines, overhead cranes and all the gadgets of mass-production mass-production associated with Detroit. De-troit. Railroad csrs on spurs inside in-side the factory were loaded with finished gun barrels for all the fronts and heavy guns were in all stages of manufacture. The corresponden makes the amazing assertion that in this one o.dnanee iactory, "which is only one of many similar uncharted un-charted ones," there were forty-eight forty-eight highly-specialized cutting and drilling machines. This mean little to the average man, but it can best be guaged by the fact, he says, "On D-day the U-ired U-ired States in all its arsenals and at the Homestead Steel Mill had exactly twenty machines of a comparable nautre." This is a fact of tremendous importance. Its significance is increased by the statement that the plant was duplicated on the east bank of the Moselle. Only a few weeks ago, these plants were turning out munitions for the enemy. Others are hidden in unsuspected places and, ap-. paremly, were undetected by aerial reconnoissance. Naturally, this reminds us of the baseball . omnuntary, "You can't hit 'em if you can't see 'em." |