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Way too many pix of the busy years at Willow Run, but you can expedite the speed of the slide show (preferences along right margin--hide able by clicking on tiny arrow) to zip past all the duplicates.  If you want to linger at an image, the Stop button is at right end of top margin.

 Ford built at least 8000 B-24 aircraft in WWII. This is one of the great aviation collection of WW II photos made at the Willow Run Plant from the Ford Museum and pictures most of us have never seen before. Some of the aircraft I have never seen before. Bob Arnau sent them to me.

 There are 291 pictures on the web and they are all excellent. Ford must have made some gliders as well as others. It takes a little time to get through them but it is worthwhile.

There are approx. 291 B&W photos taken at the old Willow Run Airport and Ford Motor Co. in Detroit.

 During the war automobile manufacturing was suspended so that GM, Ford, etc., could concentrate on the manufacture of military vehicles and aircraft. Ford Motor Company's assembly line was located adjacent to Willow Run. The government and Boeing company told Henry Ford during the war II he could not build an airplane like a car on an assembly line. He built the freeway to the plant and built the B-24 plant in these pictures and spit them out one an hour. This is an interesting bit of history that you should take the time to enjoy and share with your children and perhaps your grandchildren as this involved the "greatest generation".

 

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