In your head cannon, in addition to being a major Freedom Party donor, would Hughes and other arms manufacturers use slave labor to prop up the industry during the war like the Nazis did IOTL?
Howard Hughes boarding his Hughes H-35 Racer, circa 1935. Howard R. Hughes Jr. was born to an oil tycoon in Houston Texas in 1905, in which throughout the 1920s and 30s, he would be one of the major tycoons from the Confederacy, such as owning the Hughes Film Studios, Hughes Tool Company, and most famously, the Hughes Aircraft Company. In the early 1930s prior to the rise of the Freedom Party, Howard Hughes would join the Freedom Party and would be a massive donor to the Party for it's funds as well rising quickly within it's ranks. The Hughes Aircraft Corporation would after the election of Featherston would become part of his rearmament plans for the CS Armed Forces as it developed new weapons for the Confederacy's Military, notably being the Hughes H-38 Hound-Dog fighter, which was a result of Featherston ordering Hughes to developed a fighter version of the H-35 Racer. Throughout the late 1930s and into the Second Great War, the Hughes Aircraft Company would produce large numbers of aircraft for the CSN and CSAF as well as making new technological aviation developments for the CSAF. Following the Confederacy's defeat in 1944, Hughes, once a bigshot in the Freedom Party and now wanted by US Authorities, would first flee to Mexico before escaping to South Africa via the now infamous Veracruz-Cape Town Rat Line. After getting to South Africa, he would assist other fellow Freedomites escape to South Africa from 1945 onwards. In 1947, he along with French Expatriate Emile Dewoitine would found a new aviation company which became known as Atlas. For the remainder of his life until his death in 1976, Hughes would design aircraft for the South African Military, most notably the Atlas Cheetah which was first introduced in 1975, less than year before his death.
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