General "Hap" Arnold and Henry Ford at the Willow Run Bomber Plant, 1944

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Artifact Overview

General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold, Commanding General of the U.S. Army Air Forces, visited Ford Motor Company's Willow Run bomber plant in July 1944. Some 42,000 people worked at Willow Run over the course of the war and turned out a total of 8,685 B-24 bombers. At peak production, the factory's workforce completed one bomber every 63 minutes.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

13 July 1944

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

84.1.1660.P.833.80306.4

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

General "Hap" Arnold and Henry Ford at the Willow Run Bomber Plant, 1944