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Workers at the Willow Run Bomber Plant take lunch on the fuselage, February 8, 1943.
Now signifying “the arsenal of democracy”, at the outset Ford’s Willow Run Bomber Plant was nearly a failure. Thought to be overly ambitious in its scope, the plant hoped to boost bomber production from one aircraft per day to one plane per hour. Despite the odds, it succeeded, and recruited thousands of women and migrant workers to build its planes. Until it closed its doors at the end of the war, the employees of Willow Run produced 8,685 B-24 Bombers. |