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Gunner's Mate Walter Sorensen of the Reuben James sat down and scrawled what was perhaps to be his last letter...
From there the Reuben James picked up a convoy and worked up toward where it was chilly. Walter Sorensen did not know where she was bound: some of the guys said probably Russia; others said no, just Iceland again...
...there was the usual routine for Walter Sorensen: cleaning the breech-blocks and oiling the six 3-inch A.A.s, checking the trip-mechanisms for the ash cans (depth charges all set because the waters up around Iceland were, as the boys said, "stiff with subs"). It was hard work. The whole crew had been ordered onto Condition Baker-watch and watch, four hours on and four...
Henry Ford assigned his crack speedster to run the job at Willow Run: hard-boiled Vice President Charles E. Sorensen, who is also the doctor in aircraft-engine building and all the other Ford production projects. Last week three-quarters of the steelwork on Willow Run's vast plant (275 acres of floor space) was finished. Bricklaying was well under way, and under gaunt girders workmen were installing machinery. Alongside, workmen were inlaying the turf with the seven great runways of a new airport...
...other project: a technique (seam welding and gang riveting) which would make possible the mass production of airplane fuselages. At Ypsilanti the building where Ford will turn out centre sections for Consolidated and Douglas bombers on an assembly line was almost finished. According to big, leathery Charles Sorensen, chief Ford production man, the aircraft industry has done the development job, the production job is now up to the automakers, who understand how to work out the integration and flow of materials for volume output...