Ep. 7: War Machine (The Home Front)

By: Audible Originals, Martin Sheen

Now at war, America needed to quickly develop and mass produce an unprecedented number of goods and machinery. It would require a complete overhaul of factories, farms, and ways of working. Step onto the assembly line and hear the challenges faced by both workers and manufacturing once the U.S. threw itself into winning the war.

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Harder Better Faster Stronger

This episode chronicles the beginning of unprecedented scale. We needed more of everything and we needed it fast: food, planes, guns, factories, and sacrifice. And so the boogeymen of the great depression become the unsung heroes of the war effort as American businessmen did what they did best: mass production and logistics.