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Willow Run / Randy Hotton and Michael W. R. Davis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hotton, Randy, author.
- Davis, Michael W. R., 1931- author.
- Series:
- Images of aviation.
- Images of aviation
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- B-24 (Bomber)--Design and construction--History--Pictorial works.
- B-24 (Bomber).
- Airplane factories--Michigan--Willow Run--History--20th century--Pictorial works.
- Airplane factories.
- World War, 1939-1945--Michigan--Willow Run--Pictorial works.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Willow Run (Mich.)--History--Pictorial works--20th century--Pictorial works.
- Willow Run (Mich.).
- Willow Run Industrial Complex--History--Pictorial works.
- Willow Run Industrial Complex.
- Willow Run (Manufacturing plant)--History--Pictorial works.
- Willow Run (Manufacturing plant).
- Ford Motor Company--History--20th century--Pictorial works.
- Ford Motor Company.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (127 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Place of Publication:
- Charleston, South Carolina : Arcadia Publishing, [2016]
- Summary:
- A pictoral history of Willow Run - a relative unknown location that became the world's most famous bomber factory during World War II. In May 1940, Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt called for the production of 50, 000 military airplanes. He then drafted the president of General Motors, William Knudsen, to mobilize industry in the United States. The automotive companies were called upon to produce a massive fleet of bombers, as well as tanks, trucks, guns, and engines. By the Willow Run, a sleepy little creek near Ypsilanti, Michigan, Ford Motor Company built the world's most famous bomber factory, which was the ultimate manifestation of the automotive industry's role in building armaments during World War II. By the spring of 1944, Willow Run was producing a four-engine B-24 bomber each hour on an assembly line.
- Contents:
- How Detroit saved the world
- Isolation from the world
- 50,000 airplanes
- Knudsen and the auto companies
- Sorensen and the bomber plant
- Obstacles to production
- Rosie the riveter
- Lindbergh and Doolittle
- A bomber an hour
- Bibliography
- About the Yankee Air Museum.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 126).
- ISBN:
- 9781439658178
- 143965817X
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