In Lancashire factories, airfields in Kent and forests ... The Caribbean also supplied Britain with oil, bauxite, timber, rum and food. WW2: What was the secret to winning the Battle of Britain?

W. McCoy, a DuPont vice president, addressed a manufacturers' workshop on converting factories from military to consumer production after the war. Business would be good, he predicted, due to "a ...

A new book, The American Aircraft Factory in World War II (Zenith Press, 2006), documents the industry’s transformation from an enterprise of craftsmen building airplanes by hand to a powerhouse ...