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Willow Run, also known as Air Force Plant 31, was a manufacturing complex in Michigan, United States, located between Ypsilanti Township and Belleville, built by the Ford Motor Company to manufacture aircraft, especially the Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber. [1] .
Willow Run is an Albert Kahn -designed World War II bomber plant near Ypsilanti, Michigan. It was constructed in 1941 by the Ford Motor Company for the mass production of the B-24 Liberator military aircraft. The U.S. government contributed $200 million to the project.
6,000th B-24 Bomber at Ford Motor Company Willow Run Plant, September 9, 1944. Photographic print. Employees at Willow Run celebrated the completion of their 6,000th airplane in September 1944. Ford now planned to build 650 planes each month -- one every 45 minutes.
Mar 9, 2013 · "The Story of Willow Run" was a black and white documentary produced by the Ford Motor Company in 1945. The documentary describes the history of the bomber plant during the World War II period.
By the end of the war, Ford had pushed 8,865 B-24 heavy bombers out the Willow Run doors for the Army Air Force. The plant went from building just one plane a month in October 1942 to nearly 500 a month by June 1944, with the capability of creating 650 B-24s a month by fall.
Apr 8, 2020 · This awe-inspiring video shows how men and women helped put B-24 Liberator bombers in the skies in WWII, and how Ford applied automotive assembly line techniques along the way.
Aug 30, 2013 · Construction of Ford’s Willow Run B-24 Bomber Plant. The iconic Rosie the Riveter may seem to be simply a fiction from the past but she has a name – and an important history.
Ford Motor Company's Willow Run plant manufactured B-24 Liberator bomber airplanes during World War II. The complex consisted of several factory buildings (including a main assembly building more than a mile long), classrooms, a hospital, and worker housing.
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.
Willow Run Assembly was a General Motors automobile factory near Ypsilanti, Michigan, located at 2625 Tyler Road, in the Willow Run manufacturing complex.
