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History is in just a bunch of names and dates and facts. It's the collection of all the stories

throughout human history that explain how and why we got here. Welcome to the History

Unplugged Podcast, where we look at the forgotten, neglected, strange, and even counterfactual

stories that made our world what it is. I'm your host, Scott Rank.

The period of 1940 to 1941 was a bleak time in American history for a lot of reasons. The

country was still in the middle of a recession, within the Great Depression. Resources were

limited, and with World War II happening, the German Army was rolling out their blitz

creek and showing off their strike capability to the world that had begun to overtake Europe.

Well, American knew that the war was coming and also knew that it was in very bad shape

because it was using leftover resources from World War I. In order to fight on equal

ground, the Army realized they had to develop a vehicle for mobile warfare. They needed

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