Ford designed its River Rouge complex in Dearborn, Michigan to build Models Ts, but the first products to roll out of the plant weren't the company's ubiquitous Tin Lizzy, but Eagle boat submarine chasers for the US Navy in World War I.

View post on X

The Model T also saw wartime service as an ambulance to carry wounded soldiers from the battlefield.

In World War II, Ford produced about half of all the light 4x4 GPW vehicles, along with Sherman tanks and B-24 LIberator bombers.

Click through our photo gallery for a look at these vehicles.