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A Big Job for Little People at Willow
Run's
B-24 Liberator Assembly Plant.
Willow Run:Colossus of American Industry Page 5
Somewhere hidden throughout the roar of the rivets and the hammering of presses,. were ten of' the biggest "little people" working at Willow Run. They were little people in the big world of aviation. You could find them in a tight narrow space on the inside of a wing tip bucking rivets or insulating a fuel cell against the bullets of enemy fire; or, they might he making inspection in a space so tight that no other inspector could put a gauge on the part They were a highly specialized group of employees, respected by other employees, not just for their size, or lack of it, but for the dangerous work they performed while crawling inside a wing or fuel tank where only the midget could fit. At shift time because of' Ford's rule that everyone must punch his own time card, you could see the little people being lifted up to the time clock by their larger buddies They came from the entertainment world and the fringes of American industry. but at Willow Run they were in the center ring of the world's largest industrial operation.
