Скачать или смотреть The Factory That Produced One Million Shells a Week

One million shells—every week. Not from a sprawling industrial metropolis, but from a town whose largest employer once processed meat. In 1942, the U.S. Army issued a demand that stunned even its own planners: one million 105mm high-explosive artillery rounds per week, with no margin for error. At first, the request seemed like fantasy. British officials scoffed. German intelligence dismissed it as Allied propaganda. Even American officers questioned the math. But behind the disbelief, engineers, laborers, and wartime visionaries got to work. This episode tells the story of the Iowa Ordnance Plant—how it rose from farmland to become the most prolific munitions facility of World War II. Through mass production, innovation, and an unrelenting schedule, it turned impossible numbers into weekly reality. Because in total war, victory depends not just on bravery—but on factories that never sleep.