12-26-2006, 04:06 PM
Not that anyone here knew him, but my 100 Year Old Great Grandfather Died yesterday in the early evening.
kind of a cool life story though, nothing directly soviet or directly involved with combat, BUT...
in 1941 when the US was bombed and entered the great world war, there was a lack of steel for building building on tghe homefront, what that meant was you had to find an alternative to that, and the altenative was wod (easily found, but not needed for the war efforts in the same quantity as steel). well, the War Productions Board (a us economic board that did rationing, production quotas, etc) hired my Great grandfather and his patent on a laminated wooden I-Beam to build bases, buildings, factories, etc in the US. he worked on Sulfridge airbase, willow run airbase, worked in places down in fort wayne, i mean the list goes on for pages. but those military types out there, if you were ever stationed at a US military base any time in the last 40 years and the base existed or was built in the 40's, my great grandfather probably had a hand in building it or somethign in it.
aside from military building, he allowed private businesses to thrive because his invention allowed for easy and cheap construction of domestic and comercial buildings other than for military use.
thousands of buildings were constructed using his invention, thousands of lives were made easier and he was an integral, but often overlooked part of the Arsenal of Democracy
that is my story... hope it was interesting to all of you. his world war two efforts were truly unique and expansive.
thanks everyone for taking the time to read it
kind of a cool life story though, nothing directly soviet or directly involved with combat, BUT...
in 1941 when the US was bombed and entered the great world war, there was a lack of steel for building building on tghe homefront, what that meant was you had to find an alternative to that, and the altenative was wod (easily found, but not needed for the war efforts in the same quantity as steel). well, the War Productions Board (a us economic board that did rationing, production quotas, etc) hired my Great grandfather and his patent on a laminated wooden I-Beam to build bases, buildings, factories, etc in the US. he worked on Sulfridge airbase, willow run airbase, worked in places down in fort wayne, i mean the list goes on for pages. but those military types out there, if you were ever stationed at a US military base any time in the last 40 years and the base existed or was built in the 40's, my great grandfather probably had a hand in building it or somethign in it.
aside from military building, he allowed private businesses to thrive because his invention allowed for easy and cheap construction of domestic and comercial buildings other than for military use.
thousands of buildings were constructed using his invention, thousands of lives were made easier and he was an integral, but often overlooked part of the Arsenal of Democracy
that is my story... hope it was interesting to all of you. his world war two efforts were truly unique and expansive.
thanks everyone for taking the time to read it
