Absolute WW2 industrial chad. Dude was an automotive industry executive that was commissioned (Direct Commission) as a Lieutenant General in the Army by FDR in WW2. He's basically responsible for America's success in the industrial aspect of the war, where he led the massive production effort, as well as smoothing (the then) procurement process and bringing in companies that never produced anything for the military before.
>>62138245It's a pity he sold out to the commies in the '30s, but a lot of other engineers were taking their money too, and the FDR Administration was actively encouraging it, on the assumption that being nice would make them into friends (in reality, as soon as Knudsen's people left, the Soviets they'd trained to run the new factories got Gulag'd just in case they'd picked up any western ideas).
