Senator Harry S. Truman and Ford Executive Charles Sorensen with B-24 Liberator at Willow Run Bomber Plant, 1942
THF116362 / Senator Harry S. Truman and Ford Executive Charles Sorensen with B-24 Liberator at Willow Run Bomber Plant, 1942
01
Artifact Overview
Missouri Senator Harry S. Truman visited Ford Motor Company's Willow Run bomber plant in April 1942. Truman headed the Senate Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program, which probed waste and profiteering in United States war production work. Ford production head Charles Sorensen was largely responsible for Willow Run's success. At its peak, the plant built one bomber every 63 minutes.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
30 April 1942
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
84.1.1660.P.O.2176
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 10 in
Width: 8.25 in
Keywords |
|---|
02
Related Content
SetWillow Run Bomber Plant
- 33 Artifacts
Every American automaker turned its workforce and facilities to military production during World War II. But no project captured the public's imagination like Willow Run, where Ford Motor Company built one B-24 Liberator airplane every 63 minutes. The plant was the embodiment of America's "Arsenal of Democracy" -- the enormous manufacturing capacity so vital to the Allies' victory.
articlePresident Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “Sunshine Special”
Learn all about the "Sunshine Special," the 1939 Lincoln limousine used first by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and then by President Harry Truman, now in Henry Ford Museum.