Swift Wings, Swift Action: Willow Run Bomber Plant Fights for its Future
Many places -- and many hands -- contributed to the war effort during the Second World War, which lasted from 1939 to 1945. One exceptional story
Swift Wings, Swift Action: Willow Run Bomber Plant Fights for its Future
Many places -- and many hands -- contributed to the war effort during the Second World War, which lasted from 1939 to 1945. One exceptional story: the Willow Run Bomber Plant in Ypsilanti, Michigan, which not only housed mass production for military aircraft, but also employed women to rivet those planes together.
Willow Run Bomber Plant, a factory built by the Ford Motor Company, covers five million square feet and is said to be the “largest plant under one roof in the whole world,” says Ray Hunter, Chairman of the Board at the Yankee Air Museum in Belleville, Michigan.
42,000 workers worked in Willow Run to create the “Consolidated B-24 Liberator,” a heavy bomber used extensiv