K. T. Keller

And ultimately, it was a really rough start, but it worked.

One of the first things he does in the process, he makes a call in the summer of 1940 to his pal K.T. Keller at Chrysler, President of Chrysler.

He says, K.T.,

can you make tanks? Roosevelt's military leadership realized right away that we had to build tanks and nobody should have better tanks than the United States of America because they were motorized vehicles and we had the American auto industry.

Cadillac tanks, believe it or not.

But the company that probably did the most for tank work, I think, was Chrysler.

KT Keller, chief executive of Chrysler, gets this phone call.

Can you build this tank?