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It was not until late in the War that the decision was made to start the saturation bombing of the German/Japanese cities due to the fact that the civilian population was prolonging the war, keeping the war production plants going.
When the U.S. Government ordered the shut down of car manufacturing and the destruction of the machinery for same in early '42, Ford convinced the government to reconsider, his point being that it would take 10 years to rebuild the machines to restart production.
Crafty H. Ford had new '46 Fords (warmed over '42's} rolling off of the line within 5 weeks of the wars end. Presenting the first one to President Truman.