The Ford Willow Run Airplane Plant, a manufacturing complex, located between Ypsilanti and Belleville, Michigan, was constructed in the early years of World War II (WWII) by Ford Motor Company for the mass production of war munitions, especially the B-24 Liberator heavy bomber.
Production at Willow Run began in the summer of 1941, and the dedication plaque is dated June 16, 1941. The airplane plant initially built components, while Douglas Aircraft and the plane's designer, Consolidated Aircraft, assembled the finished aircraft. Remote assembly proved problematic, and by October 1941 Ford received permission to produce complete B-24 Liberators. Willow Run's Liberator assembly line ran through May 1945, building almost half of all the B-24 Liberators produced.
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