FANTASTIC Vintage WW2 Ford Motor Co EMPLOYEE BADGE B24 AIRCRAFT PLANT
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Reference Number: Avaluer:260570 | Country/Region of Manufacture: United States |
Year: 1942 |
Willow Run, also known as Air Force Plant 31, was a manufacturing complex in Michigan, constructed by the Ford Motor Company for the mass production of aircraft, especially the B-24 Liberator heav...y bomber.Construction of the Willow Run Bomber Plant began in 1940 and was completed in 1942.The plant began production in summer 1941.The plant initially built components; Douglas Aircraft and the plane's designer Consolidated Aircraft assembled the finished aircraft.In October 1941 Ford received permission to produce complete Liberators.[3][4] Willow Run's Liberator assembly line ran through May 1945, building almost half of all the Liberators produced.