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Willow Run, also known as Air Force Plant 31, was a manufacturing complex in Michigan, United States, located between Ypsilanti Township and Belleville, built by the Ford Motor Company to manufacture aircraft, especially the Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber. [1]
Willow Run Airport (IATA: YIP, ICAO: KYIP, FAA LID: YIP) is an airport in Van Buren Charter Township and Ypsilanti Charter Township, [2] [3] near Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States, that serves freight, corporate, and general aviation.
Willow Run is an Albert Kahn -designed World War II bomber plant near Ypsilanti, Michigan. It was constructed in 1941 by the Ford Motor Company for the mass production of the B-24 Liberator military aircraft. The U.S. government contributed $200 million to the project.
Willow Run: Arsenal of Democracy. overview. Michigan's Willow Run Bomber Plant played a tremendous role in shaping the landscape, people, culture, and local economy of Ypsilanti and Washtenaw County during and after WWII.
11 gru 2008 · Outstanding industrial architect Albert Kahn designed Willow Run, one of the largest manufacturing plants under one roof in the world. Completed in early 1942, this bulwark of the "Arsenal of Democracy" produced 8685 B-24 Liberator Bombers and had a peak employment of 42,000 men and women.
1 maj 2021 · Ford’s propaganda film “The Story of Willow Run” shows women working alongside men in several areas of the factory floor. The most famous woman worker of the war, “Rosie the Riveter,” came from the Willow Run Bomber Plant.
Ann Arbor High senior Don Exinger spent the summer of 1941 working on a farm east of Ypsilanti. Named Camp Willow Run, after the creek that wound through its woods and gently rolling fields, it belonged to auto pioneer Henry Ford.
