Anniversary of B-24 Liberator bomber first flight during World War II - Business Insider"78 years ago, the B-24 Liberator took its first flight — here's how it helped bring down the Nazis...
...To compare a Ford V8 with a four-engine Liberator bomber was like matching a garage with a skyscraper," Sorensen wrote.
But he formulated a plan to build B-24s that won over Edsel Ford:
Make them on an assembly line housed in the largest factory in the world, a mile long and a quarter-mile wide, churning out one heavy bomber an hour.
The plan would lead to the construction of the massive Willow Run plant near Ypsilanti..."
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