Speaking of Willow Run - Women on the Warpath was a film produced by Ford Motor Company in1943. It shows the contributions of women at Ford's Willow Run B-24 bomber plant, touted as the "world's largest plant producing a single item. US National Archives. | Washtenaw County Historical Society

In 1943, German spies were stunned. They had discovered the impossible: America was building a B-24 Liberator bomber every hour at the Willow Run factory—a 1.5 million-part aircraft that defied Nazi expectations. Story Overview: This is the untold story of Ford’s Willow Run plant, the factory that shocked German intelligence. Agents like Canaris and Oster confirmed the numbers: photographs, reports, and eyewitness accounts all proved America’s industrial might. But Hitler and Göring refused to b

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The Arsenal of Democracy: Willow Run and the Power of Mass Production During World War II, the Willow Run plant, conceived by Henry Ford, became a living symbol of American industrial might. Built in Michigan, it was the world’s first mass-production aircraft factory, transforming Ford’s automotive assembly-line genius into the realm of military aviation. Between 1942 and 1945, more than 8,600 B-24 Liberator bombers rolled out of Willow Run — an engineering triumph that forever changed the tempo