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WWII: How Detroit Won The War

Destined for D-Day

Destined for D-Day

Workers assemble Sherman tanks slated for the D-Day invasion at Normandy. By the time World War II ended, more than 50,000 of the 30-ton tanks had rolled off assembly lines—a practical emblem of the speed with which Detroit supplied U.S. and other Allied forces with arms, vehicles, and other gear in the fight against the Axis powers.

Photo: Gordon Coster/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Feb 01, 1942
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