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Willow Run B-24s

The long hanger at Willow Run, Michigan has a 90 degree turn so that Henry Ford did not have to pay taxes in the next county.

That short end is being saved and restored as a museum. The big hanger doors are still operational after all those years.

This is one of the best and most informative clips about an American accomplishment. Congratulations to the Ford Motor Company during WWII.

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This was 6 months BEFORE Pearl Harbour! Henry Ford was determined that he could mass produce bombers just as he had done with cars, so he built the Willow Run assembly plant in Michigan and proved it. It was the world's largest building under one roof at the time. This film will absolutely blow you away — one B-24 every? 55 minutes . . . and Ford had their own pilots to test them. And they had no recalls.

ADOLF HITLER HAD NO IDEA THE U.S. WAS CAPABLE OF THIS KIND OF THING.

B-24 Liberator Willow Run Assembly Plant - YouTube

Charles Lindbergh was a good friend of Henry Ford and was closely involved in advising Ford's executives and helping the Willow Run plant to work through the many teething problems they had in getting the production line and workers up to speed on building aircraft to the required standards. Not surprisingly, early production examples had lots of quality problems, delays in delivery schedules, etc. There was also a lot of friction between the Ford operation and Consolidated over lack of adequate drawings, parts incompatibilities, resistance to making design changes that Ford wanted to suit mass production, and personality clashes between senior executives from both companies. Still, they got it done in the end.

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