Re: Warbirds on Display
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This B-24 Liberator was built at the Ford Willow Run plant, where old Henry showed the Army that you could build planes just like you do cars.
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Not quite how it was. After promising "one per hour" by the end of 1942 Willow Run had built just 56 B-24s, less than three days' worth at the rate quoted. The plant and 'ol Henry were a national disgrace. All he proved was that you couldn't build airplanes just like cars.
This is from "Ford: the Men and the Machine."
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08-15-2008, 11:30 PM
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