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Photos of the Willow Run,
B-24 Liberator Production Line in WW2.

Willow Run: Colossus of American Industry  Page 5-4
Here's some photos of the inside of the B-24 Liberator production line near Detroit Michigan. 

The enormous size of this plant is astonishing.  They trained over 50,000 workers to build the B-24 Liberators at Willow Run Michigan.   The factory was over a mile long and produced a B-24 Liberator every 58 minutes.  B-24 Liberator Books.

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B-24 Liberators inside the Willow Run Assembly Line building.

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Close-up photo of the B-24 Liberator bomber engines and right wing.

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Looking down the mile long B-24 Liberator Bomber Factory Assembly Line.
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These are some photos of the B-24 Production Line.   Look at the Factories Specifications Below

Area: Entire Project  1,878 acres,
Airport size
1,434 acres,
Factory Floor
80 1/4 acres - 3,503,016 sq. ft.-
including hangars: 4,734,617 sq. ft.,
 
Length of willow run factory
- E
ast to West:  3,200 feet, 
Width of willow run factory
1,277 feet, 
Length of assembly lines:
5,450 feet, 
Runways (longest)  7,366 feet,
(Shortest)  6,510 feet, 

Cost of willow run project:
 
$103,000,000, 
Weight of B-24 on delivery
49,900 lbs. 
Number of rivets in the B-24
313,237, 
Dies made
as of December 1944:  29,124,
Fixtures in Production:
 
10,915,
Number of wooden floor blocks:
 
16,000,000, 
Fluorescent tubes:
  152,000, 
Number of windows:
 
28,855, 
Conveyors:
 
136, Crane-ways:  29,  
Monorails
(all buildings)  18 miles,
Power requirements
approx.  13,200 KWH,
Students trained in school
 
50,000,  
Water used daily
approx.:  5,000,000 gallons, 
Parking lots
(capacity)  15,300 cars,  
Fuel capacity
(gasoline):  150,000,  
Fire Protection 
(Sprinkler heads)  5,212,  
Airport concrete used
at willow run is equal to a 20 foot highway 115 miles long. 

From the Webmaster:  Look at the size of this manufacturing plant.  They had to train over 50,000 people as well as build the B-24' factory.  It used more than 13 Megawatts of electrical power.  Totally Amazing.

My Aunt Laura worked for the B-24 Liberator plant in San Diego, California.  She worked with supply and checking of the air tools.  She told me that one of her supervisors looked out of the window and saw her husband, my Uncle Howard, riding away on a train, heading to war.  The supervisor didn't tell my aunt until the day was over.



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   Here's another Book Review about a B-24 Pilot in WW2, Jessie Pettey.

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Patterson Aircraft Company

This exhibit shows the Patterson Aircraft Company in 1980.  This is the place that I worked in the last part of the 70's and the first part of the 80's.  This was the best job that I have ever had and one of the best crews that I have ever worked with.  C. Jeff Dyrek, webmaster.

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