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As a September demolition date looms for the former Willow Run Powertrain facility in Ypsilanti Township, fundraising efforts to save a portion of the attached Willow Run bomber plant are about $4 ...
Willow Run in Belleville Michigan near Ypsilanti was a manufacturing complex built for one purpose -- to win the war. It's in danger of being torn down. Learn more about the plant and how you ...
Saving the Willow Run Bomber Plant DPTV documents the work to save the factory that was part of the massive Willow Run complex in Ypsilanti that turned out a B-24 bomber every hour in WWII.
The site's manager had given the Save the Willow Run Bomber Plant campaign a deadline of Thursday to raise the $8 million needed to buy a 150,000-square-foot slice of the old factory for use as ...
"We started this whole effort to buy a little piece of this bomber plant back in 2011." It was at Willow Run where Ford Motor Company built 8,685 B-24 Liberators from 1942 until the end of World ...
The Ford's Willow Run Bomber Plant will be the subject of a talk by Matt Anderson, the curator of transportation at The Henry Ford Museum, on Nov. 10, 2021, at the Studebaker National Museum.
Willow run plant where the bomber were made only made transmissions for GM till the time it closed in 2010. The BOC plant next door made the Corvair and Nova and other models.
DETROIT -- The public will get the chance to visit the former Willow Run bomber plant in Ypsilanti Township, Mich., one last time Saturday before the factory is demolished. A tour of the historic ...
SOUTH BEND — The Studebaker National Museum presents “Ford’s Willow Run Bomber Plant” at 1:30 p.m. Nov. 10 at 201 Chapin St. Presented by Matt Anderson, Curator of Transportation at The ...
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The Willow Run Bomber plant recently marked a milestone in its rebirth. The historic plant is undergoing a radical transformation. Skip to main content. Open Main Menu Navigation.
On March 28, 1941, a small army of construction workers began clearing a five-square mile patch of land near Ypsilanti. The Willow Run bomber plant was… ...