WWII: How Detroit Won The War - Photo Gallery, 21 Pictures - LIFE - 0 views
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Rita Hennessey on 05 Feb 10"President Franklin Delano Roosevelt wasn't the first to call America-and Detroit, specifically-"The Arsenal of Democracy," but he popularized the phrase during his famous "fireside chats." And for once, political rhetoric didn't outstrip reality: During the 1940s, Detroit's factories went from manufacturing cars to building tanks, bombers, army trucks, ordnance-in short, arming U.S. forces for battle in World War II."