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By Samantha L. Quigley. They said it couldn’t be done. Doubters chided Henry Ford for declaring that his Willow Run Bomber Plant could turn out a B-24 Liberator heavy bomber every hour. They’d called him crazy in 1896, too, but Ford ignored the naysayers, pushing past obstacles and failures until his gasoline-powered horseless carriage ...
Jan 3, 2019 · The Willow Run bomber plant made aviation, industrial and social history—along with new B-24s by the hour. By Tim Trainor. By mid-1944, the Willow Run assembly plant was producing one B-24 per hour—accounting for half of all B-24s assembled that year. Some 12,000 women worked at the Willow Run bomber plant, each paid the same 85 cents an ...
Mar 9, 2013 · A documentary about the Ypsilanti Willow Run airport's legendary B-24 bomber plant will air Sunday on PBS . B-24 Liberators line the airfield at Willow Run Airport in this June 1945 photo. The bomber plant adjacent to the airport produced the famed World War II bombers in a plant built by Henry Ford. The influx of workers for the massive war ...
Mar 7, 2019 · Mo Rocca speaks to curator of transportation Matt Anderson on the history of Ford's Willow Run factory and its mass production of both cars and B-24 bombers ...
Jun 11, 2018 · DPTV documents the work to save the factory that was part of the massive Willow Run complex in Ypsilanti that turned out a B-24 bomber every hour in WWII. C...
Willow Run is the legendary B-24 bomber plant near Ypsilanti, Michigan, which was a focal point of the Arsenal of Democracy during WWII. The Yankee Air Museum is proud to present this documentary ...
Oct 11, 2015 · Willow Run Bomber Plant. Even with these draw backs that did not stop the United States from producing 18,188 Liberators by the end of World War II. 8,685 B-24’s were built in Willow Run bomber plant (Story of Willow Run, p.70). It seems like a production miracle that the people working at Willow Run bomber plant were able to produce the B-24 ...
