The home of the WWII B-24 Bomber, the Willow Run bomber plant in Michigan was the centre of the American war effort. Now largely forgotten the 2 million square foot plant was a powerhouse of production, and a symbol of the economic and industrial revolution that won the allies the war, when Detroit and the factories of the American midwest were the arsenal of democracy.

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