my grandfather was a B-29 pilot. didn't see alot of time during the war, but logged hundreds of hours post WWII during the Berlin Airlifts. unfortunately he passed away before I was born, so I never really got a chance to meet him. still though, keened my interest in pretty much everything that flies. god bless the USAF and godbless America.
Sorry, Jeff, you're incorrect. The factories that were built for war production in WW2 are mostly still in operation. The Willow Run plant is closing down, but #4 in Ft. Worth is still running - though both have changed hands several times. Plant #6 in Marietta GA is still in operation, refitting C-130s and C-5s. Yes, a lot of production has moved overseas, but a great many products are *still* made in America. But manufacturing has changed a lot since the 40's.
this is back in the days where governments have the balls of saying they are going to annihilate their enemy, without hypocrites crying out for human rights
You missed the whole point. Obviously some plants were built from scratch BUT that takes more time and costs a hell of a lot more money than converting existing civilian industries. My point was more the fact that we couldn't covert as many plants for wartime use if we wanted too since those plants are now in China, Malaysia, and Singapore.
Every body says BLABLABLA about your OUTSTANDING digging work on BIG stuff WWII but my question is : where in hell do you find the time to feed us with such beauties ? Greetings
B29 was the embodiment of American superior industrial technology and manpower. No wonder Imperial Japan could not shoot down B29 bombers in their own airspace. Japan didn`t have industrial prowess which could compete with American factories which were described in this film. Japan`s declaration of war against the U.S. was completely unrealistic from the beginning.
CEOs are to make as much profit for their corporations and investors as they can. It's obviously cheaper to produce their product in foreign countries than it is in the US. They can still produce their product here and just pass the additional costs onto the consumers most of whom are not union workers. Also, the corporate tax rate is lower in many other countries.
I wasn't going to reply because in your rant you said absolutely nothing to support your point of view. Tell me this: If you owned a large business and a union was forcing you to pay 5 million for labor that was worth 2 million and you found out that moving the business to another country would get you labor for 1 million, would would continue to pay that extra 4 million or would you move?
There's another film made at the time, B-29's over Dixie IIRC. It shows how the Bell plant, including a residential community with churches and a swimming pool, was built from scratch. There are only white folks in the pool. Students in history class notice that almost immediately. That's a good thing IMO. We've come a long way. Long way to go yet, but progress is progress.
A wonderful film archive of Americana from a most important era and thanks for posting! Was that Norma Jean I saw in coveralls, checking new employees? Further: I admit to an interest in seeing similar period piece films made and approved by the governments of Germany (Der Krieg im Ost), Italy, Japan, Nationalist and Communist China, CCCP, Hungaria, et al, so an accurate comparison of fact versus propaganda can be made. I've seen a bunch of US films, shorts, and Cartoons, made during the war, but I've yet to see many from the other major nations involved. Cartoons starring the Deutscher or Nihonese equivalents to Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, Private Snafu, and Popeye would be a social historian's treasure.
Their repayment was made with part of their loan they didn't use and probably didn't need. And from what I knows they haven't fully repaid that loan. But I'm sure they will, someday...maybe.
It's more expensive for big corps to do business in the US than in a lot of other countries Just like it costs more to build a car in Michigan then it does in Alabama.
America manufactures by dollar amount more than China and Japan combined in 2012,and the majority of goods and services are meant for that huge American market....We export,but are not dependent on it for growth... A strength....Don't you think???
I noticed how they characterize Black people as the "Dark ones". Aaahh yes, those must have been the good ole days. My mother worked in a war plant during the war. It wasn't all stars and strips and roses.
All Americans who have retirement plans that are not invested in US or municipal bonds depend on these multinational American corps to make money. The more they make the more the retirement plans are worth.
Ask yourself this: If you came out with an I-phone better than Apple's and you had orders for tens of thousands of them, where would you have them made; in the US of China? It's not the fault of the CEOs that labor is so cheap in some foreign countries. Let their government or people change that. And if they do, you and I will be paying more for that I-phone.
Absolutely wrong. While some pre-existing factories were converted to war production, quite a few were built from scratch. Bell's facility in Georgia where B-29s were built, grew from red dirt. Same with Kansas and Willow Run in Detroit. War Plant #4 in Fort Worth, Texas, produced its first B-24 364 days after groundbreaking. During the Cold War it produced 385 B-36 Peacemakers. That mile-long factory is today turning out the F-22 Raptor.
Banks have to be bailed out. GM? They would have survived without the gov't bail out. They wold have filed for bankruptcy like they with the gov't bail out and would still be around.
They filed for bankruptcy. They could have done that without the bail out and they would be a better company with no obligation to the government and they wouldn't have screwed their bond holders.
So much has changed in America, for lazy people, to peak resouces, to being an aggrissvive country like that we faught against. If it was ever to repeat - I don't think it would be the same.... Sad.
The US market is the richest market on the planet.... :) jaydee040, how about we do a comparison between your life and mine,we have many videos....And I have 7 children and a wife..We have many interest and hobby's..
@jeffhanson1 American manufacturing by dollar amount is grater than China and Japan combined in 2011,read more.....Please check the facts...9 of the 10 highest valued corporations globally are American,1 Chinese company is on the list at the bottom.. Every computer is American pretty much AMERICAN,Intel,AMD,IBM,or APPLE Chips run the worlds personnel computers and main frames.....With American operating systems,windows,APPLE,or Linux.....Please check....
@GhostRecon756 very proud American,if you are unhappy you should find a place where you can be happy...I have been all over the world ,there is no other place even close to as good as the USA.... Oh America is the oldest modern democracy.When Europe has kings, we had ELECTED Representatives from 1789 to the present...No gaps in our democracy................;)
That is a very poor generalization of American business, as if all business leaders are dishonest. Your profile shows no age and ignorance is not bliss. Every problem this country faces today can be traced to our government, people loosing everything, crime. You name it and you can find our government as the root, the cause.
Awesome video of the most advanced bomber of WWII. Thank You for this AB.
my grandfather was a B-29 pilot. didn't see alot of time during the war, but logged hundreds of hours post WWII during the Berlin Airlifts. unfortunately he passed away before I was born, so I never really got a chance to meet him. still though, keened my interest in pretty much everything that flies. god bless the USAF and godbless America.
Awesome piece of American ingenuity. Thanks for uploading the video.
TU-4 POWER !
"Land of the little people" Wow!
What
Brutal.
WW2, a time when most Americans were united, employed, and everyone worked for the government.
Sorry, Jeff, you're incorrect. The factories that were built for war production in WW2 are mostly still in operation. The Willow Run plant is closing down, but #4 in Ft. Worth is still running - though both have changed hands several times. Plant #6 in Marietta GA is still in operation, refitting C-130s and C-5s.
Yes, a lot of production has moved overseas, but a great many products are *still* made in America. But manufacturing has changed a lot since the 40's.
this is back in the days where governments have the balls of saying they are going to annihilate their enemy, without hypocrites crying out for human rights
Thanks for posting!
Beats watching anything available on the BBC
A good clip, those workers put those bombers together with such skill that they make it look as simple as a child putting together an Airfix toy.
I love how they use 'load of death' to describe the bomb load. Today a mini-nuke is called a 'humanitarian' bomb.
You missed the whole point. Obviously some plants were built from scratch BUT that takes more time and costs a hell of a lot more money than converting existing civilian industries. My point was more the fact that we couldn't covert as many plants for wartime use if we wanted too since those plants are now in China, Malaysia, and Singapore.
Same here in the UK...We were once the workshop of the World :(
Fun fact: this entire movie is in the public domain. Sampler users, start your engines!
Back when the United States had a backbone and was worth a damn.
Every body says BLABLABLA about your OUTSTANDING digging work on BIG stuff WWII
but my question is : where in hell do you find the time to feed us with such beauties ?
Greetings
B29 was the embodiment of American superior industrial technology and manpower. No wonder Imperial Japan could not shoot down B29 bombers in their own airspace. Japan didn`t have industrial prowess which could compete with American factories which were described in this film. Japan`s declaration of war against the U.S. was completely unrealistic from the beginning.
TU-4 POWER !
CEOs are to make as much profit for their corporations and investors as they can. It's obviously cheaper to produce their product in foreign countries than it is in the US. They can still produce their product here and just pass the additional costs onto the consumers most of whom are not union workers. Also, the corporate tax rate is lower in many other countries.
I wasn't going to reply because in your rant you said absolutely nothing to support your point of view. Tell me this:
If you owned a large business and a union was forcing you to pay 5 million for labor that was worth 2 million and you found out that moving the business to another country would get you labor for 1 million, would would continue to pay that extra 4 million or would you move?
There's another film made at the time, B-29's over Dixie IIRC. It shows how the Bell plant, including a residential community with churches and a swimming pool, was built from scratch.
There are only white folks in the pool. Students in history class notice that almost immediately. That's a good thing IMO. We've come a long way. Long way to go yet, but progress is progress.
Fun fact: the B-29 cost more to develop than the nukes it dropped.
A wonderful film archive of Americana from a most important era and thanks for posting! Was that Norma Jean I saw in coveralls, checking new employees?
Further:
I admit to an interest in seeing similar period piece films made and approved by the governments of Germany (Der Krieg im Ost), Italy, Japan, Nationalist and Communist China, CCCP, Hungaria, et al, so an accurate comparison of fact versus propaganda can be made. I've seen a bunch of US films, shorts, and Cartoons, made during the war, but I've yet to see many from the other major nations involved. Cartoons starring the Deutscher or Nihonese equivalents to Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, Private Snafu, and Popeye would be a social historian's treasure.
Their repayment was made with part of their loan they didn't use and probably didn't need. And from what I knows they haven't fully repaid that loan. But I'm sure they will, someday...maybe.
Sadly,I can't read your message but I hope it was nice - can't blame you if it wasn't ... but then ... Good luck and peace, from Australia.
Sr71 or the B29?
The high cost of running a business (labor costs) in this country has a lot to do with it.
Successful copying improved Japan? So it was like China now?
Yes and they used to make low quality stuff.
It's more expensive for big corps to do business in the US than in a lot of other countries Just like it costs more to build a car in Michigan then it does in Alabama.
America manufactures by dollar amount more than China and Japan combined in 2012,and the majority of goods and services are meant for that huge American market....We export,but are not dependent on it for growth... A strength....Don't you think???
This is almost too awesome to take in...we are the sleeping Giant.
Flavor Flav at 14:13
hilarious!
I noticed how they characterize Black people as the "Dark ones". Aaahh yes, those must have been the good ole days. My mother worked in a war plant during the war. It wasn't all stars and strips and roses.
I love giant bombers(B-29,B-52,Tu-95...etc)
but,strategic bombardment is sad and tragic...
it's killing civilian and burning their house
America's form of democracy is the same as is was in 1789,the UK can not say that..It is what it is..
All Americans who have retirement plans that are not invested in US or municipal bonds depend on these multinational American corps to make money. The more they make the more the retirement plans are worth.
Your willingness to take the extreme opposite of what I said and assume that is what I mean makes you look silly.
Ask yourself this: If you came out with an I-phone better than Apple's and you had orders for tens of thousands of them, where would you have them made; in the US of China? It's not the fault of the CEOs that labor is so cheap in some foreign countries. Let their government or people change that. And if they do, you and I will be paying more for that I-phone.
Absolutely wrong. While some pre-existing factories were converted to war production, quite a few were built from scratch. Bell's facility in Georgia where B-29s were built, grew from red dirt. Same with Kansas and Willow Run in Detroit. War Plant #4 in Fort Worth, Texas, produced its first B-24 364 days after groundbreaking. During the Cold War it produced 385 B-36 Peacemakers. That mile-long factory is today turning out the F-22 Raptor.
Good point! Everything in the US was NOT all good back then.
The comments are historical interesting
Then, how much control does the gov't and union have over GM? They should have none.
Banks have to be bailed out. GM? They would have survived without the gov't bail out. They wold have filed for bankruptcy like they with the gov't bail out and would still be around.
They filed for bankruptcy. They could have done that without the bail out and they would be a better company with no obligation to the government and they wouldn't have screwed their bond holders.
Their loyalty has to be to the stock holders most of whom are Americans whose IRAs are, for the most part, invested in these corporations.
So much has changed in America, for lazy people, to peak resouces, to being an aggrissvive country like that we faught against. If it was ever to repeat - I don't think it would be the same.... Sad.
アメリカ人っていうのは今も昔も変わらないんだね。 でもね、第二次世界大戦、太平洋戦線に従軍したアメリカ人の中には「自分の正義が…」と悩む人もいたようですよ。
@jeffhanson1 you know are government cold have prevented that to rite
We are still proud to American in the NC USA... :)
off we go! into the wild! blue! yon! der!
Stensvold I will send you a video.... ;)
@GhostRecon756 AND WAR !!!
It was all commodore Perry's fault!
or Filmore & Congress. Doubt Will thought it up himself.
this is a military video dont say things about buisniss here folks
Politics were never honest.
18分。義勇軍進行曲
The US market is the richest market on the planet.... :) jaydee040, how about we do a comparison between your life and mine,we have many videos....And I have 7 children and a wife..We have many interest and hobby's..
vous etes chiant mettez nous un docu sur le b 29 en francais merci
land of the little people haha
@jeffhanson1 American manufacturing by dollar amount is grater than China and Japan combined in 2011,read more.....Please check the facts...9 of the 10 highest valued corporations globally are American,1 Chinese company is on the list at the bottom..
Every computer is American pretty much AMERICAN,Intel,AMD,IBM,or APPLE Chips run the worlds personnel computers and main frames.....With American operating systems,windows,APPLE,or Linux.....Please check....
@GhostRecon756 very proud American,if you are unhappy you should find a place where you can be happy...I have been all over the world ,there is no other place even close to as good as the USA....
Oh America is the oldest modern democracy.When Europe has kings, we had ELECTED Representatives from 1789 to the present...No gaps in our democracy................;)
That is a very poor generalization of American business, as if all business leaders are dishonest. Your profile shows no age and ignorance is not bliss. Every problem this country faces today can be traced to our government, people loosing everything, crime. You name it and you can find our government as the root, the cause.
Nice piece of propaganda.