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The manufacturing and construction production video for the Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber. This video is about the Ford Motor Company production plant at Willow Run for B-24’s before and during World War II. Ford Motor Company manufactured and built B-24 Liberators under license from Consolidated Aircraft Company. Production rates were so great at the Ford Willow Run plant, that a new B-24 rolled off the production line every 55 minutes. I was recently told by a B-24 pilot who flew the Ploesti missions among his 43 combat missions in the B-24, that the B-24’s built at Willow Run were not as good as those built elsewhere.
