National Archives and Records Administration ARC Identifier 93633 / Local Identifier FCFC4502 Women on the Warpath, 1943 Ford Motor Company.

Willow Run From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willow_Run

The site of the plant was a farm owned by Henry Ford. He had used the farm to provide employment for youths during the summer. Ford Motor Company, like virtually all of the United States' industrial companies, directed its manufacturing output during World War II for Allied war production. The Ford Motor Company developed the Willow Run site to include an airfield and aircraft assembly facility. The plant held the distinction at the time of being the world's largest enclosed "room." At its peak, Willow Run produced 650 B24s per month by 1944. By 1945, Ford produced 70% of the B24s in two nine hour shifts. Pilots and crews slept on 1,300 cots waiting for the B24s to roll off the assembly line at Willow Run. Ford produced half of the 18,000 total B24s at Willow Run. The B24 holds the distinction of being the most produced heavy bomber in history.

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