18,482 B-24 liberators were built during WW2. At the Ford plant, a new B-24 rolled off the assembly line every hour. More B-24s were built than any other American combat aircraft in history.
(Top photo – collings foundation)
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18,482 B-24 liberators were built during WW2. At the Ford plant, a new B-24 rolled off the assembly line every hour. More B-24s were built than any other American combat aircraft in history.
(Top photo – collings foundation)
Bob Holmstrom bottom gunner B 24 is still alive at the Saint Paul Legion 98 years old. FYI. )).
My dad was a radio operator/side gunner WW2 South Pacific on a B-24!
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We need to write Ford and ask for a quote.
What was there roll? Was it very diff than the B17 roll?
Yipsilanti Michigan.
C’est incroyable tout de même l’effort de guerre réalisé pour produire autant d’appareils !!! 1 appareil a l’heure !! Cela paraît inimaginable.. Wahou
My father flew them from Tunisia and Italy, 23 combat missions over Southern Europe, including the messchersmidt plant where they were building the ME-262 twice.
B-24’s were built at 5 plants around the country. Not just Ford in Michigan.
North American in Dallas, Tx for example was directed to help build B-24’s. Building 966 Liberator’s.
And Henry Ford was a Hitler supporter for quite a time. He built factories in the Sovjet union after the war as well.
Wasn’t the Sovjet mobile gas chambers ford trucks? The Sovjet mobile gas chambers were made to kill people, unlike the german gas chambers for disinfection of lice.
I did not know that Ford built the B-24’s, Thats actually pretty cool actually, but wasn’t the B-24 designed by the Consolidated Aircraft company but Ford put them together?
Studebaker Manufacturerd engines for a bunch of B-17’s.
Shame they joined the club at the last minute
18.482 !!!!! ?? Thats realy impressive!
Do you know IBM carbine rifle?haha
And yet….
I’ve been inside that airplane.