During WWII, Ford Motor Company opened a plant in Willow Run, Michigan to build B-24 bombers. The factory was 1.25 miles long and occupied 3.5 million square feet. Workers used bikes and scooters to get from one end to other. Charles Lindbergh called it “the Grand Canyon of the mechanized world.” Initial production was slow, only 56 in the first year, and the plant was dubbed “Will It Run?” By 1944, workers produced one bomber per hour. By the end of the war, Willow Run had manufactured 8,600 planes. Read more about the bomber plant and WWII in A Brain. A Heart. The Nerve. (see NOVELS).
