How did Ford make a plant that could create a bomber an hour during WWII?
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- Host Stuart Varney dives into the history behind the mass production of American bombers during WWII on ‘American Built.’ #FOXbusiness
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The documentary was awesome, even gave me (as a non US citizen) awe and chills. But suddenly cutting it without a part 2 was ...blueballing.
There is a full documentary check out my other comment
Michigan, Detroit and Henry Ford were the total backbone of America back then!! Amazing story!!!!
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Sorry GM fans, Knudsen might have been smart but FORD was/IS 100 times the company GM ever was. GM was just able to score money and grew making them LOOK bigger/smarter when actually luck was simply why GM grew to the toadstool like behemoth it was prior to bankruptcy. GM was a toadstool in the regard it had a huge head of money grubbing corporate management that slowly killed those actually making the products and money until the bankruptcy filing culminated in killing the stem which made the bloated head fall. GM became beholden to the government as soon as they accepted bailout, and whether or not they have/would pay back the dirty money given to them, they LOST their soul and ability to freely operate as a soveriegn company from bankruptcy/bailout going forward. And ANYBODY who thinks that isn't a simplified truthful description of gm is simply a blind fanboy to a failed corporation.
And still today
@@JA-fn7le Amen Sir
@@JA-fn7le Yes these were great companies, but not built by Americans, the factories and cities sat idle for a thousand years before any white European set foot. That includes the blueprints for all these war machines, the controllers just needed orphan trains to start it back up.
Was that the end? They found the location to build Willow Run and that's the end? Was there a part 2?
american built season 2 episode 6
look on right side this copy they tell about the plant ( willow run bombers)
My grandfather, Robert E. Houston, designed the Willow Run plant. Instead of knocking down the buildings that were already there, he incorporated them into the design to save the government money on the project. Once the plant was built, he was “#4” at the plant.
My grandfather worked for years for Henry Ford at the Highland Park Assembly as a mechanic/fixer of machines, and he and Ford knew each other fairly well. Every so often Ford would get a batch of experimental food made and cooked by GW Carver at the Ford research area. Mr Ford would never eat them, since he was worried about being poisoned, and he brought them over for Mikey to try and give comments. When the first planes rolled off of the Willow Run plant, the wings fell off! The team there could not attach them properly, and were delaying the project. Ford sent a car to pick up Mike and his crew, brought them to Willow Run, and asked if Mike could fix the problem. His team solved it by the end of the day, and the wings never fell off again. There used to be a commemorative plaque on the wall at Willow Run that Ford put up for his workers for this feat!
Ford should have been worried. He was a N@zi. These weren't the only factories. Ford had slave labor factories in Europe.
An Administration cannot fail so horribly without intenteding too
Yesterday I was fortunate enough to take a 20 minute ride on a B-25 Mitchell bomber at the Planes of Fame Museum in Chino, CA. The crew suggested that we imagine ourselves as 18 y/os & not knowing if we are coming back from a mission. It was quite difficult. Nowadays, we have 18 y/os that need "safe spaces" against "micro aggressions". Far cry from all those 18-20 y/os that crewed all the B17s, B-24s, B-25s, B-26s & B-29s & whose sacrifice give us our freedoms today.
If we had only declared Europe a sale space about 1936 the whole thing could have been averted!
If they had to, I think they could.
You can thank my FATHER for being one of those 19 year old 'kids' who wasnt sure he'd see his 20th birthday - He saw 93 birthdays.
RIGHT THESE TWITS HAVE NO CLUE
Buy silver than crypto..
My dad worked there from 67-98. They were building M16's during Vietnam in part of the building. They still had the wood floors in parts of the plant. The building is gone now, it's a sad thing.
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Because back then America loved their country and everyone was taught to work if you want something. Pride, honor, and a willingness to do something to help in there war. Not like today when half the country doesn't want to work or want everything for nothing
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Teee Beee...you are absolutely correct 💯!!!
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@@glenmortimer2503 yeah eugenics is cool! 😂 Especially when you don't realize you're a part of this. They are transforming our DNA all along. Pumping us full of metal and graphene that is reconstructing our DNA to essentially be better slaves.
Buy silver than crypto....
#1 reason
The people back in the day knew how to work and knew how important it was and actually cared.
Some still working and caring. I am one of them. Thank you for sharing.
@peterdagnese453 - You are 💯correct in that statement! American workers back then had a definitive, strong work ethic. Too many young workers today are unmotivated, want more pay all the time, and don't understand or embrace much of anything relative to the old work ethics. They are too much concerned with the "what's for me" syndrome rather than the "how can I make a difference here"? If the youth of today had lived through the great depression they would have had a completely different attitude about the privilege of having a job.
My dad worked at that factory as an aircraft inspector and went on to fly a B-24 in the Pacific in '44.
I always been fascinated for the war effort where everyone put our differences on the side and working together. The WW2 was a example of total catastrophe of humans can do to each other.
but it was also an Example of what we can accomplish, by as you stated "working together" to save humanity. without American Manufacturing Expertise and our great workforce, Generations to follow would most likely not know Freedom.
Everyone except democrats. If
You heard that part.
Not according to some of the “experts” in this “documentary.”
@@cacornhusker2940 Americans built these war machines but didn't design engineer them. These factories and cities sat idle for a thousand years before repopulation in 1900. Probably much older than that even.
@@togowack That's hilarious
My Dad Navigated an H Model B 24 that came out of Willow Run. Only made 5 Missions
before being shot down over Yugoslavia. His Squadron had a steady stream of replacements coming in from Ford to keep both the Squadrons & Bombardment Group at full and expanded strength the rest of the War. While he sat out the remainder of the War in Stalag Luft 1.
His Crew was part of the Original Cadre of the Bombardment Group & Squadron and only 2 of 62 ships of that Squadron saw the end of the War. Due to these horrific losses, especially before the P 51 was deployed this type of mass production was necessary to destroying the German War Machine. One thing that stands out to me was that the Manufacturers told the Government to "get out of the way" and they could get it done. Capitalism when left unfettered
always succeeds.
Unfettered, Capitalism tends to ''succeed'' to excess.
The cost of making the 18,000+ 'B-24's cost in modern-day money some $90,000,000,000. That's without all the associated costs of running the planes (fuel, crew-'training, spares, repairs...).
@@None-zc5vg Good thing our grandfathers didn't have to do the engineering, considering the factories and cities were already here for a thousand years, just waiting for someone to turn it all on. Convenient World Wars
@@None-zc5vg For so long as one person remains hungry anywhere in the world capitalism has not succeeded excessively .
Thank God we had a Democratic President in the White House!
@@DunedinMultimedia2 this only facilitated the total re writing of history, to this day its a mystery what really happened during the great depression and during the war. FDR only did what he was told.
I worked in that building from 1977 to 2008 when it was GM Hydra-Matic Willow Run Plant, later changed to GM Powertrain.....and still live where the Old Willow Run Village once was.....History is thick here at Willow Run.
I love your online name...pretty cool!
America's golden age. just before business and DC sold their souls to Beijing in the 80's. We don't make sh*t anymore. Detroit is a ghost wasteland. So sad. Used to support multitudes of families and mom-pop businesses. Now America is only the 1% And the 99%.
They had people back then that actually believed in America.
The key word is "reasonable profit ".
Every German vehicle had a Ford engine inside of it. Let that sink in
Dave Ramsey says cost of running a building. Figure it modern value and make 8% if not raise the rent.
And would fight anyone over Old Glory.
We still do.
Bring back our manufacturing!
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I love Aerospace Engineering especially stealth aircraft and flying saucers(like helium ships , electrostatic ionocraft saucers, and more)
Ford has such glory in history, not such level now. But still my respect.
My mama worked there. She was Rosie the Riveter. Actually, she was Florence the Driller. She hadn't met my father yet. He was a Bombardier on a B-17.
You can be proud of your parents!
@@VNExperience I'm proud of that entire Generation. Thanks for the compliment.
It is amazing what great leadership can inspire men and women to do.
And they didnt have to put up with alot of dung like the bureaucrats throw at you today.
Today, environmentalists would cry "what about the mice??" and need 4 years to evaluate before thinking to move any dirt.
GREAT LEADERSHIP would be in avoiding wars in the first place.
US: can we make things that fast today?
US: it depends on how fast China can manufacture and send us the parts.
They didn't make a bomber in an hour, they came off the assembly line 1 hour apart. Big difference.
It was every 53 minutes and they were working towards every 47 minutes when one production line was shut down near the end of the war. Once off the assembly line they still had to be static tested and flight tested. But, they made them so fast they were running out of pilots to ferry the planes to the Air Force and would have problems with storing them onsite.
Hey , num nuts that is not what the title states.
Effectively that is the same, if it were possible to apply the same amount of hands all at once, it could be done in 1 hour, but they cant apply that many hands at once, so assemply lines. The factory produced one every hour
They ASSEMBLED one bomber every hour, not manufactured it!
Is this a full length series? This is an incredible documentary
This was awesome!
need # 2 video of this show!!
For perspective - the Ford Willow Run factory TODAY would still be in the Top 10 for largest footprint - and is THE largest footprint building ever used for aircraft manufacturing (it was a little bigger in footprint then the Boeing Everett facility, the CURRENT record holder).
I'm not sure where it compares on cubic area though - but probably still pretty high on the list there.
Love Ypsilanti great place to visit been to willow run amazing Dad was USAF B24 Crew
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Can you imagine maintaining planes in the field without interchangeable parts? Once they were standardized, it had to be much easier to keep them flying. You could even scavenge parts from wrecks to repair damaged planes if every part fits every plane of the same model.
Eli Whitney created interchangeable parts. So that idea had been around for 75 years.
Wish I could have heard the rest of the story
Pssst ... "search engine" ... (don't tell anyone!). Edit: This particular piece is apparently a Fox creation, drawing bits and pieces from other documentaries and putting them together with written history. There are longer documentaries on the Willow Run plant, a lot of them by the Ford company. There is much in American history of industry that is not widely known at all (e.g. Ivory soap was the result of an accident / oversight, but was so interesting that they decided to advertise / market it, and it caught on, so they mass-produced the accident - Ivory is my favorite soap). The guy who found oil in the ME desert was an employed geologist - I forget his name.
Who do you think you are watching, Paul Harvey?
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The good guys won the war. The building eventually became a General Motors transmission plant. It has been closed down for years now. I don't know if the huge plant still stands or not.
AMAZING
This is a great story, SV, one which should be part of every school curriculum. I lived through WW2, the worst conflict in history, and as can be seen in Ukraine nothing much has changed. The price of liberty . . .
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Doesn't fit the narrative. How many transgender's were in management? LOL.
Hell, you lived through WWII and you are writing comments on CZcams? That's spry.
Educational information that fills your gaps for the future. :)
Absolutely amazing and it was about excellence and best and focused persistence to accomplish this amazing production.
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My Grand father Charles William Marken was to time keeper for tool and die engineering at the bomber plant he retired from ford's in 1970.And my Grandma was a Rosie riveter lol she was .I'm 57 and miss hearing there stories of that time when America went to work
This kind of efficiency is only possible in a homogenous society.
That's why Chairman Xi is using Joe Biden and Democrats to drive wedges between all Americans.
Imagine my surprise when I clicked on View Reply and could not see the reply. A homogeneous society would allow its members to share each other's comments.
*Absolutely!*
The 'secret' of assembly lines is simple: Precision. Every part has to be identical to every other of the same part. This eliminated the tedious hand fitting required in non-precision manufacturing. For details, see the book The Perfectioninst, by Simon Winchester.
Great story. The Willow Run plant helped save the world. There is not a nation on this planet that could have pulled this off.
to be honest.. numbers still matter.. Even some old technology can slip past modern defenses if the numbers are large enough
The Stalingrad Tractor Factory was designed by workers in Albert Kahn Associates’ office in Detroit, built from prefabricated steel components shipped from the United States, and outfitted with U.S.-manufactured machinery. Truly, the factory was an American import to the Soviet Union. “Soviet Detroit.”
Disgusting we helped that evil enemy in any way.
@@mynameisgladiator1933 They weren't our "enemy" during WW II they were one of our allies because they were helping to defeat the Nazis. Ford shipped a complete tire manufacturing plant to Russia at the direction of the U.S. government. When Sorensen went to Russia some years later, he recognized crates of equipment Ford had shipped sitting in warehouses unopened.
@@mynameisgladiator1933 the good people of the East are nobody's enemy
Henry Ford had an attitude of: "Don't tell me it can't be done! Shut up! Get out of the way and watch me do it!"
Sounds like 45 who over half of America despises
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Jealousy ....
Absolutely incredible
It was amazing!
Grew up in Ypsilanti. Willow Run was a legend, became a Fisher Body plant.
Back when the country was cohesive.
They a patriot men/ women willing to work self motivation pride in quality of product
The inflation problem isn’t joe’s fault, the Afghanistan debacle wasn’t joe’s fault, the southern boarder invasion isn’t joe’s fault, the Russian Ukraine war isn’t joe’s fault .The baby food shortage isn’t joes fault
I wonder what else isn’t joe’s fault.
It reminds me of when I was young my father called my four brothers and I outside and asked who left his screw driver out and we all said I didn’t do it.
It’s time to grow up joe !
Too late for Brandon -- he sort of grew up, but always second rate and is now shrinking rapidly. Rescue in November?
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It may not be his fault but hes been in government for 45+ years and has done nothing notable to fix it
My Dad used to grill us, on who left his tools out... Usually, it was my Dad who did. Lol
The question is could America and the young people today do the same thing today fight a war and build the products to supply it?
We may find out sooner than you think
My father worked at Willow Run at 17 years old. He was tall and skinny. He crawled in tight spaces and was pulled out by his ankles.
Bill is on point as usual.
Only in America. There was a time when we could do stuff like this.
Union labor stole the pride from our craftsmanship and the enthusiasm from our productivity. Now they do as little as possible, with the least effort possible.
@@quietobserver4636 *Post-1945 Detroit: Built by drunken union thugs.*
This is America we loved
The B24 developed fuel leaks in flight . The leaks were due to short cuts in tank sealing at Willow Run.
@Jay Reiter - That is not unusual considering the massive pressure to produce planes as fast as possible. If that statement is an attempt by you to undermine Ford, it is a pathetic one at best.
@@Loulovesspeed America wants to make sure that the airmen came back safely from their mission without the plane developing mechanical problems on the way or return from combat. I think running out of fuel because of a defect would be of paramount concern for the aircrew who the fly the planes. It falls on Ford to build safe planes and should not be an excuse to cut corners just to make a profit. What if the sons of Ford management were to fly the planes?
Remember your at war not a weekend at the park but War and a big one at that called WW2 they couldn’t be perfect they just need planes common sense!
Where the rest of the story?!
Sweeper to Hero. Amazing story…
Where is the rest of the film?
My mother worked in the control tower and my dad flew the planes as they came off the assembly line, he flew b-24's in the south pacific from the start of the war until 43.
For all you watchers of the Ford vs Ferrari movie, here's a little side note for you. It is possible and quite likely that the Ford/Ferrari battle started in 1943 with the bombing of Italy by B-24 Liberator bombers, possibly🏁 made at the Willow Run Plant of Ford! Ferrari's shop was leveled by them. Score: Ford (1) Ferrari (0). Lol 🏁
*You nailed it! Brock Yates' 1991 book "Enzo Ferrari" mentions that in passing. Cheers!*
Bring manufacturing back !!!
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@KonaBoiKeoki - Then you will have to get rid of all the unions as they continually drive up our manufacturing costs making the U.S. uncompetitive and foreign production necessary.
@@Loulovesspeed but we had union membership at its highest membership from the 40s-60s, the height of U.S. manufacturing. If union membership was the problem, we'd have manufacturing now since union membership is at a modern low.
@@ajmari9585 - Yes, but that was before major foreign competition surfaced and their lower paid labor forces started eating into American companies profit margins in a big way. Meanwhile, Union involvement continued to drive American labor costs even higher. Now it's too late, the damage is done! I personally feel that Unions were at one time, years ago, very important in providing control over violations of child labor laws as well as a big problem in the lack of safety for workers. Unfortunately, the Unions got power hungry and started getting involved in wage considerations which I feel they have no right to. That's just my personal opinion, for what it's worth! 🤐
Henry Ford is a legend
GOD BLESS AMERICA 🇺🇸 🙏 Happy 4th July. To. ALL
Not a Ford owner !
Great man !!
Could we do that now? All the semiconductors you need are overseas! They are trying to bring them back but until then why are we messing with Russia which could lead to WW3?
China going into Taiwan
Because your owners want ww3
Full documentary is called war factories | part 5 | US aviation
Many of the clips from this are taken from that free documentary series. Its free on youtube if you want to see more!
You are the best David, thank you very much
🙏👍❤️ America has the potential and power. All we have to do is recognize our self worth and do our job or karma. I have faith 🙏.
If you have faith then you know the bible.
It says Israel would exist in the latter days.
That many would run to and fro and knowledge would increase.
It says wars and rumors of wars and nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom. Plagues pestilences and famine.
Earthquakes in diverse places.
Only Fox Business would be dumb enough to put the audio of a jet engine in the intro featuring a radial powered B-24
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They probably didn't have a bunch of young anarchists working there that would scream and protest that they were being forced to produce weapons.
Nope, probably just a bunch of Democratic voters who wanted a union and loved FDR
Often the leading clickbait question to a youtube videopost is either not addressed or you have to see the answer somewhere between the middle or end of the video after some forced ads.
Little know fact: after the war, Edsel wanted to convert the factory to a huge roller skating rink. Henry Ford put his foot down, we'll have none of those modern age jazz hijinx, but a huge ice skating rink is definitely on the table as good wholesome fun!
I salute you, kind sir, for including both “jazz” (in the non musical sense) AND “hijinks” in the same statement!
Two terms that do not deserve to die away just because the world is getting taken over by whippersnappers!
Now they only make trucks with engines that go bad after 5 years
were is the rest, this is fantastic
even as a child we could help ---we saved aluminum caps off milk bottles on sat you can go to a movie up town sat noon all you need was these aluminum cap or empty tooth paste tubes nation wide this was tons of aluminum for planes
Love it!!! USA!!!
they didnt make a bomber in an hour.. they put out a finished bomber an hour
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How do you crank out a bomber an hour? By simultaneously supplying the Nazis.
He could do a bomber an hour because warranty was very limited on warplanes. Don't have to be comfortable or even warm or quiet to ride in. How fast could they pump out cars if they didnt need to be comfortable, quiet or warm inside- let alone have door trims etc?
Being conformable, warm or quiet to ride in has nothing to do with WARRANTY.
Wheres the rest we need the rest its great
The question the world needs to ask, could the US build like this again,,, I have a answer to this, in late 90s & early 20s I worked for AM General building the Humvee, at the height of building these vehicles, we was putting out 98 one day, next day 99. Do to the speed of the lines. So the answer is yes we Americans can, just need the opportunity to do this again.
In 1939 when the vote for the Nato treaty took place, Mr Republican Sen Robert Taft of Ohio gave an excellent speech why he voted against creating Nato.
The headline is misleading. It makes it sound like it only took an hr to make one .
Sad what Detroit has become...
Now they can’t even pump out a Ford Focus in 3 hours
My father and uncle was in WW 11 Germany and the Pacific
God bless them 🙏🏼🌏💜
Your father was also your uncle?
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Where is the rest of the video?
This feels like it is supposed to be at least 20 minutes, and the sudden cut-off was more than a little disconcerting.
Great that Fords subsidiary company Opal also helped the Germans build their war machines as well ...Gooo Henry
*Wrong. Since the 1930s Adam Opel AG in Rüsselsheim, Germany is a wholly owned subsidiary of General Motors Corp. Get your facts straight and do better.*
How could they make a bomber an hour. Lots of government money.
Former Boeing here.... not quite accurate to say they built 1 per hour. That was the last stage.. final assembly. Everything comes all ready to install. Complete wings, complete fuselages, complete engines, complete sub-assemblies like wire harnesses, cables, ducts. It's like snapping parts together. We can 'build' a 747 in less than a week. It takes weeks and months for other contractors to complete their own sub-assembly. Those parts a shipped JIY (just in time).
When the government actually accomplished great achievements with the private sector
A B-24 didn't have 1.2 million parts, it is more like 450,000 not counting rivets.
God bless America!!!! Shoe
had 2 uncles that flew them from willow run to new jersey during the war,interesting story.
*Yep. Military Port Terminal, Bayonne.*
We didn’t have a choice, we were likely losing 24 a day of that same bomber, in action.
They were built Ford Tough
Bunky Knudson showed Henry Ford how to build an assembly line. They parted company and Knudson went to work for GM.
Knudson wasn't working for Ford when Sorensen, Ford, and several others were experimenting with assembly line processes at the Highland Park factory.
@Thomas Drago Sr. - Not sure where you got that idea from but the assembly line had been around long before Ford or GM started making cars. Henry Ford's contribution to the process was to make it a MOVING assembly line, quite different and a big improvement to the standard fixed assembly line. It greatly increased production while relieving the workers of much stress, and it was soon adopted by many companies, including GM! That single creation by Ford reduced assembly time from 12 hours per car to 1+1/2 hours per car! Bunky Knudsen had no part in that.
Well you certainly failed history class.
When everyone works for one goal they will win.
Consolidated wasn’t clueless. U.S. aircraft manufacturers were tiny businesses before the war, almost mom and pops.
You are splitting hairs and your sentence reveals that. As mom and pops they did have NO clue as to true production techniques.
Don't fall for the orange conman
"So good that he made everyone on the Democratic Party mad".
Now that's the kind of guy that changes world.
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Sounds like Elon today
None of Roosevelt’s supporters knew how to build anything. The Democratics never change.
Malarkey
The only reason we won WW2 was because Democrats were in charge.