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2020-09-17 -Land of the Free

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Posted by Besoeker 2020-09-17 02:27|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Daisey BB gun

Louisville Slugger

Rawlings baseball glove

etc.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-09-17 08:43|| 2020-09-17 08:43|| Front Page Top

#2 Quality. I once talked to a British man who restores WWII tanks. He said he could take a part off one British tank and it wouldn't fit another tank without some serious working. He could take a part off an American tank and it would fit another tank without any reworking.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2020-09-17 08:45|| 2020-09-17 08:45|| Front Page Top

#3 He could take a part off an American tank and it would fit another tank without any reworking.

As I learnt here, leading up to World War II American tanks were redesigned to maximize the number that could be packed into a ship for overseas war, and standardized so that the tank crew could do most of the repairs themselves at the side of the road, rather than needing to be hauled off to the base mechanics shop far to the rear. I don’t recall if Henry Ford was involved, but the philosophy was the same — a Democratic peoples’ tank that trusted the yeoman on the ground to be able to diagnose and repair his vehicle without the need for specially trained specialists.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-09-17 13:44|| 2020-09-17 13:44|| Front Page Top

#4 When I was growing up in a marginally middle-class neighborhood, not that long after WW2, all the guys wanted to be auto mechanics and all the girls wanted to be beauticians, more or less. Bringing your car to an auto shop was like coming out of the proverbial closet.

And that's how our tanks kept rolling. Not every nationality had the same attitude.

Old German WW2 joke:

"One Panther tank is worth 10 Shermans!'
Reply: "Yes, but there are always 11."

Posted by Matt 2020-09-17 14:25|| 2020-09-17 14:25|| Front Page Top

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