The Willow Run bomber plant helped the US win World War II and was the birthplace of the Chevrolet Corvair and Nova. Can it find a third act as a mobility hub?

since my father was a B-24 Liberator pilot in the South Pacific during World War II. As A.J. Baime’s excellent book “The Arsenal of Democracy” (2014) confirms, Ford Motor Co. accomplished ...

The military sent him to Fort Worth to teach men to fly the B-24 Liberator. When off duty ... Century Fox’s “Follow the Sun” with Glenn Ford. Only the Warner Brothers and Twentieth Century ...

Last man out. In 1946, shortly after leaping from a plummeting B-24 bomber and hiding in caves from Nazi patrols for six months, an Oklahoma farm boy was drafted by the Green Bay Packers as the 66 ...

A Consolidated B-24 Liberator on fire after being hit. By 1944 Ford’s Willow Run plant in Michigan was rolling a new Liberator off the assembly line every 63 minutes, running 24 hours a day ...

The B-24 featured a shoulder-mounted high aspect ratio Davis wing. Used on several bomber models during World War II, the Davis wing offered a lower drag coefficient than other contemporary ...

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Polinsky (top row, second from left in wartime photo), was navigator aboard a B-24 Liberator ... bombers rolling off the assembly line at Henry Ford’s mammoth Willow Run plant nearby.

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Tucson's remarkable connection to aviation history includes the B-24 Liberator. A key U.S. bomber in World War II, American pilots and their crews trained here at Davis ...

B-24 Liberator had capacity for longer missions ... Some 8,685 of the approximately 18,500 Liberators were built by Ford Motor Company. In addition to being a heavy bomber, the B-17 Superfortress was ...