The World's Biggest Factory (in 1941)

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In 1941, as WWII loomed, Ford Motor Company faced an unprecedented challenge: build a B-24 bomber every hour.

Enter Charlie Sorensen—Ford’s production mastermind—who took the concept of the automobile assembly line and applied it to aircraft manufacturing on a jaw-dropping scale. His vision? A factory a mile long and a quarter-mile wide.

With help from legendary industrial architect Albert Kahn, that vision became Willow Run.

It wasn’t easy. The line struggled at first. But in time, the team achieved the impossible—one bomber rolling off the line every 63 minutes.

Willow Run wasn’t just a plant. It was a wartime powerhouse. A symbol of American industrial might and a critical piece of the Arsenal of Democracy.

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