A ground floor plan made in 1943 shows the location of the Press Room in the northwest corner of the West Wing and the swimming pool in its original location at the center of the West Terrace. The White House Collection.
The Willow Run manufacturing complex, located between Ypsilanti and Belleville, Michigan, was constructed in the early years of World War II by Ford Motor Company for the mass production of war munitions, especially the B-24 Liberator heavy bomber.
Then, in 1941, war was raging in. Europe and Ford began construction. of the worldâs largest factory, sited at. Willow Run, to manufacture B-24. Liberators. By the end of the war, he. had built the biggest, most efficient. bomber plant the world had ever. seen. At the height of production, the Willow Run factory produced a B-24 bomber every hour. Continued on page 3.