C-SPAN Cities Tour - Ann Arbor: Willow Run Bomber Plant
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- The Willow Run Bomber Plant was completed in 1941, and it was the largest factory in the world under a single roof. Built by the Ford Motor Company, it was used to build B-24 Liberator Bombers during WWII. At the peak of its production, the plant produced the bomber planes at the rate of one every hour. It employed over 40,000 workers, including many women, collectively nicknamed "Rosie the Riveter." The facility now faces demolition, but there is an effort to preserve a small part of it as the new home for the Yankee Air Museum.
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it wasn't Henry, it was Edsel.
Initial B-24 production was not without problems, Enough post flight test squaks that earned the nickname: Will it Run... They soon created a miracle in aviation manufacturing though.... Awesome effort
Why is Ann Arbor in this story? It should be Ypsilanti and Willow RUN.
When will it be ready for tourism?
Ypsilanti michigan
Very Good!... #5 ✝ {5-24-2022}
Too bad more folks don’t view this.
There's some houses in the area where the pilots would stay the night as they came to get the newly built bombers where woodland roller rink used to be down at the end where the road dead ends opposite of where the roller rink used to be by the junkyard the houses in front is where pilots coming to get the planes would stay the night at . They're still there nobody really knows that the landlord told me this about 40 years ago there would be documentation somewhere anyway the house is still there they should have plaques in front of them and be historical sites but I guess nobody else cares
Yea sure. Let me donate to a cause that helps us remember how millions of innocent women and children were slaughtered in Germany.
I suspect you might be of German heritage as am I. War is insane but seems to be the only solution when diplomacy fails or is disregarded. The tragedy Germans suffer under was not unique. London suffered under German V2 rockets and other ordinance delivered. All of Europe was devastated by a war Germany started in WWI and continued through WWII. It was a different era and thinking was different from today where it’s so easy for us to second guess history. Hitler wasn’t the only madman on the German side. I can appreciate his Nationalist philosophy but he and many others went way over the limit on to insanity through the Axis Powers.
@@stoutdog56 How could Hitler have been a mad man? He had many Joo ish members of his team. Wasn't he at the funeral of a high level Marxist as a lad? Where did he come from? Out of no where? And before you know it German has a super highway system after being bankrupted in WWI? A lot doesn't make sense. What makes sense to me is culling the herd. Rallying the troops to slaughter with the allure of nationalism! Go team!! The smart thing to do for the German soldiers and people would have been to scatter in 60 million directions instead of lining up to be slaughtered, or concentrating in cities.
they screwed germany after ww1, so they made ww2 possible by design