40mm Bofors Anti Aircraft Canon manufactured by Chrysler

[greg g]

Check out the film on You Tube of the division of labor across the brands,

 

 

[keithb7]

As ugly as war is, it sure brought many a country together.  It is amazing what they were able to accomplish at that time. Outstanding!

Edited December 5, 2022 by keithb7

[keithb7]

This adds a little more background on this Mopar mass produced weapon:

 

https://youtu.be/5CDPhCI72oY

[SteveR]

Thanks Keith!

[Dan Hiebert]

Those are cool, thanks for posting.  As much as I like that kind of stuff, I generally don't go searching it out and I really appreciate when you'uns are kind enough to post them on the Forum.  What amazes me is all the re-tooling every company had to do, and how quickly they did it.  Not only that, these also demonstrate the vast number of sub-components that have to be made to even get started.  I.e., I've a cousin in West Branch, MI who is a machinist.  He made his living manufacturing the woodruff keys for GM as a sub-contractor out of a one person shop.  That's it, just they keys.  But someone had to make them.  

[Loren]

Dad was on an Army freight ship in the Pacific ( FS259 ) and it had a Bofors on the stern.

For fun they’d take a big Oxygen bottle and drop it from the bow when they were underway.

It would go way down and come shooting back up out of the water behind the ship. 
They’d shoot at it with the Bofors usually hitting it with a violent “Clang” with bright sparks sending it tumbling end over end.

That gun takes at least three people to shoot it. One for up and down another for right to left and a loader.

My Dad and a German Immigrant Sargent were the best team on that gun.

Only once did they man it in defense.

A “Betty” bomber spotted them made a turn and lined up on them bomb bay doors open.

Just as it got in range it pealed off and closed the bomb bay.

They figured the ship was too small to waste bomb on….

When the war ended the Navy came and removed the Bofors.

I figured somebody in the government must have known the mischief they could get into with that gun. lol

The last ship he sailed on was the FS344 for one trip San Francisco to New Orleans just after the war.

Much later It was transferred to the Navy and became notorious as the USS Pueblo, a victim of North Korean piracy.