Women On The Warpath (1943) - Inside The Willow Run B-24 Plant

National Archives and Records Administration - ARC Identifier 93633 / Local Identifier FC-FC-4502 - Women on the Warpath, 1943 - Ford Motor Company.
Willow Run From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willow_Run
The site of the plant was a farm owned by Henry Ford. He had used the farm to provide employment for youths during the summer. Ford Motor Company, like virtually all of the United States' industrial companies, directed its manufacturing output during World War II for Allied war production. The Ford Motor Company developed the Willow Run site to include an airfield and aircraft assembly facility. The plant held the distinction at the time of being the world's largest enclosed "room." At its peak, Willow Run produced 650 B-24s per month by 1944. By 1945, Ford produced 70% of the B-24s in two nine hour shifts. Pilots and crews slept on 1,300 cots waiting for the B-24s to roll off the assembly line at Willow Run. Ford produced half of the 18,000 total B-24s at Willow Run. The B-24 holds the distinction of being the most produced heavy bomber in history.
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[@karenbolz]

My mother worked at the plant sewing the inside panels. She was the first married woman hired at the WR plant.

[@Redmenace96]

omg! Went back to the beginning to see if this were directed by Frank Capra, with set design by Norman Rockwell! Very fun! Thank you for posting this, it is a gem from history.

[@jaminova_1969]

"Yes we can!" I wish they would teach this Herstory in school. Thanks for preserving these training films!

[@billyfran1]

A little corny now, but why are there only 91 likes after all these years. These women made a critical contribution!!!

[@EddieHaskelll]

My Grandmother worked there, installing triggers in machine guns.

[@CHACH208]

to today stadard these women put today man to shame many young teens dont even know how to change a flat tire and this women are did great for this wonderful greta nation

[@trafficwarrior]

My Mom worked there. She used to metalplate the aluminum

[@ObiWanBillKenobi]

I could be wrong, but I the college shown at 4:35 looks to me like Eastern Michigan University, which is also in Ypsilanti, MI, maybe 10 miles from the Willow Run Plant. The final bay that I referred to I think is shown at 8:15. The bay doors are shown from the outside at 8:32.

[@mudflap8448]

It was..any questions I'm a expert on that town after all I was born there

[@1GRITS4evah]

My dad, Eddie Hefley, was one of the group of test pilots, later becoming one of their Flight Dept. supervisors, too. :-)

[@lordpokeball1647]

I live 3 miles from Willow Run!

[@naturalobserver6130]

CaptPizza I grew up about 3 miles from willow run

[@jimlowe8018]

My mother and 3 aunts worked at Willow Run. Is there a complete history of pictures somewhere? They had lots of stories.

[@TheBob204b]

Very cool

[@michaelbowman7558]

How about the bomber plant in Cleveland at what is now the I-X Center at the south end of CLE?

[@toddwilford1870]

My grandmother worked there also my dad lived by there and he would tell me about when they pulled the planes out of the hangars they would test the machine guns and you could hear them all through town as they fired the machine guns into a big pile of sand I think the big pile of sand is still they're not for sure though.

[@larrym1448]

A generation that will never be equaled.

[@danclayberger770]

Fix the sound tract.

[@drussellu.s.1034]

They’d never get it to one plane an hour today. Too many workers would be taking selfies and making tictok videos etc.

[@robertwilliams2623]

If we had to do this today the country would be over 50% of the country would help

[@pilotdave1000]

@Gethsemaneful oh yea i forgot all about that

[@lFlapjackl]

@iseesquares Wouldn't it be funny if airboyd would block and remove your comment making it impossible for you to view the videos he uploads?

[@albanyjohn]

@lFlapjackl guitargamery blocked me for a comment he didn't like and I was one of his subs.

[@iseesquares]

FURST!

[@Ka9radio_Mobile9]

Women were so darn pretty back then!

[@0MoTheG]

"deadly accuracy" LOL once 1/3 of the engineering-force is female I will tune into the song.

[@spidez8407]

@silvereagle2061 lol

[@iseesquares]

@lFlapjackl yeah i don't care, so wtv. Would be douchey of him though

[@Gethsemaneful]

@pilotdave1000 It was 1943, they still had segregation.

[@colintraveller]

You should learn some history ..

[@pilotdave1000]

wheres the black women?

[@robertmiller2173]

And my Dad was a Tank Commander with the New Zealand Army of an M4 Sherman powered by the Mighty Ford GAA V8. Back in New Zealand he only owned a Ford. I am still biased towards Ford, I have never had a dud one! The worst car I have ever had was a Subaru....so unreliable. The most boring car I have ever had was a Toyota Camry. My favorite cars were a Ford Escort 1.6 Liter Sport and a Ford Falcon 4.1 L. My next favorite cars are Mazda. And then the USA out sourced Manufacturing, firstly to Japan and then to China and the CCP; we haven't got any thanks from the Commies in the CCP! Nixon and Kissinger convincing Moa Zedong to open up his economy to endless opportunities from the USA without anything in return except less jobs in the USA and the West!

[@WAL_DC-6B]

I once read a car review that said, "the Toyota Camry is the most boring car you'll ever love."

[@AVMamfortas]

Replaced men in the factories so the 'evil' men could 'bring death', eh. AgitProp. Why didn't they join the men on the front? Men's extra strngth didn't stop bullets and shells blowing their arms and legs off while the women's nimble fingers rivited in the safety of a factory. EEEKwaliteee'.