Crowd at Dedication of Tri-Level Highway Overpass, Willow Run, Michigan, 1942
THF200115 / Crowd at Dedication of Tri-Level Highway Overpass, Willow Run, Michigan, 1942
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Artifact Overview
Willow Run, built by Ford Motor Company to mass produce B-24 bombers during World War II, was more than 20 miles from Detroit. Workers rapidly constructed a new expressway, with state-of-the-art grade separations, to connect the plant with existing roads. Crowds celebrated the highway's completion -- one of many urgent wartime defense preparations -- at this dedication ceremony in 1942.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
September 1942
Place of Creation
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
P.833.77025.3
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: 8 in
Width: 10 in
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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.