Detroit Arsenal Tank Plant Historical

Detroit Arsenal Tank Plant Historical (HM1XB9)

Location: Warren, MI 48092 Macomb County
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Country: United States of America
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N 42° 29.951', W 83° 1.756'

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Side AIn 1940 the U.S. Army and the Chrysler Corporation hired Detroit architect Albert Kahn to design a self-contained tank plant. Kahn specialized in factories. In 1941 he designed 20 million square feet of defense plants. The first tank rolled off the assembly line at the sprawling Detroit Arsenal Tank Plant on April 24th, 1941, amid cheering spectators. The December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor thrust the U.S. into the Second World War and tank plant workers into round-the-clock production. President Franklin Roosevelt and his wife, Eleanor, inspected the plant in September 1942. Two months later workers set the monthly record for all U. S. plants by producing 896 tanks. Tank manufacturing ceased here in 1997.
Side B
Just two decades after the end of World War I, Europe was again at war. Construction of the Detroit Arsenal Tank Plant began in 1940, before the U.S. became directly involved in the conflict. The 1941 Lend_lease Act committed the U.S. supplying arms to its allies. During World War II the U.S. government contracted with automakers to make tanks, trucks, and planes. William Knudson, president of the General Motors Corporation, led the government's defense production effort. Capitalizing on the auto industry's mass production capabilities, he called on Chrysler Corporation president
K. T. Keller to build tanks. By the wars end the arsenal built 22,234 tanks, over one quarter of the tanks produced in the U.S.
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HM NumberHM1XB9
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Year Placed2002
Placed ByMichigan Historical Commission-Michigan Historical Center
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Date Added Saturday, March 18th, 2017 at 1:02pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)17T E 333257 N 4707197
Decimal Degrees42.49918333, -83.02926667
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 42° 29.951', W 83° 1.756'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds42° 29' 57.06" N, 83° 1' 45.36" W
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Area Code(s)586, 810
Which side of the road?Marker is on the right when traveling West
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 7900 Tank Ave, Warren MI 48092, US
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