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In Taylorsville, Indiana. Anybody have any idea what he was building? My mother was born there in '44. He wasn't allowed to join up because he was the sole source of income for his wife, two kids, and all his brothers and sisters and his mother (his father had died) INstead he was sent to Indiana to make airplanes. He and two older men were the only men in the factory--the rest were women.

It would be kind of neat to be able to show my Mom what he made there.

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"I knew the jig was up when I saw the P-51D-20-NA Mustang blue-nosed bastards from Bodney, and by the way the blue was more of a royal blue than an indigo and the inner landing gear interiors were NOT green, over Berlin."

Taylorsville is south of Indy, near Columbus on 31. I didn't know of an aircraft factory there. A component sub-contractor maybe?

Other than Republic (P-47) in Evansville not aware of any other a/c manufacturers in Indiana.

Regards,
Mike

There was a canning factory in Edinburgh.

Maybe try one of the libraries down there.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&c2cof ... sults&cd=1

Hmmm. It could be Evansville. I'll giver her a call and ask (memory ain't what it was)

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"I knew the jig was up when I saw the P-51D-20-NA Mustang blue-nosed bastards from Bodney, and by the way the blue was more of a royal blue than an indigo and the inner landing gear interiors were NOT green, over Berlin."

The P-47 Building is still in Evansville, its Westinghouse now if you need a photo just ask, I'll send my sister over to take it for you. she lives there...

Central Manufacturing in Connersville built a part of the B-24 fuselage....nose section I believe. I used to have a link to all the ww2 manufacturing in Indiana and what they made. I'll keep looking.