8.1K views · 44 reactions | 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 | Facebook

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

Every American automaker turned its workforce and facilities to military production during World War II. But no project captured the public's imagination like Willow Run, where Ford Motor Company built one B-24 Liberator airplane every 63 minutes. The plant was the embodiment of America's "Arsenal of Democracy" -- the enormous manufacturing capacity so vital to the Allies' victory. | The Henry Ford