Courtesy of Molon Labe.
Uploaded on Jul 31, 2009 by Tom Dozier
The manufacturing and construction production video for the Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber. This video is about the Ford Motor Company production plant at Willow Run for B-24’s before and during World War II. Ford Motor Company manufactured and built B-24 Liberators under license from Consolidated Aircraft Company. Production rates were so great at the Ford Willow Run plant, that a new B-24 rolled off the production line every 55 minutes.
I know a guy who lives near me in Northern Mi – is 80 yrs old and says his father worked at this plant. He said they had midgets to climb inside the wings to rivet and so forth and every once in a while there would be blood running out of a plane wing from someone drilling up through and hitting one of them. He said they just left them in there (dead) and shipped the plane out. I asked him “wouldn’t it make the plane fly off balance” – he said it didn’t matter. I think it’s B.S.