{"id":11061,"date":"2021-11-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studebaker.priemerhosting.com\/fords-willow-run-bomber-plant\/"},"modified":"2021-11-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T00:00:00","slug":"fords-willow-run-bomber-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studebakermuseum.org\/fords-willow-run-bomber-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford\u2019s Willow Run Bomber Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Presented by Matt Anderson,<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Curator of Transportation at The Henry Ford Museum<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Wednesday, November 10, 2021, at 1:30pm in the Wiekamp Auditorium; <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>$2 admission \/ FREE to Studebaker National Museum members<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Join Matt Anderson, Curator of Transportation at The Henry Ford Museum, for a look at the Ford Motor Company\u2019s Willow\u00a0Run\u00a0plant, which produced over 8,600 B-24 Liberator bombers during WWII. Willow Run, located near Ypsilanti, Michigan, built nearly half of all B-24s during WWII and transitioned to peacetime production once hostilities ceased. At its peak, more than 42,000 people staffed the complex \u2014 a city unto itself.\u00a0 Mr. Anderson\u2019s presentation will cover both Willow Run\u2019s wartime and post-war history.<\/p>\n<p>The Studebaker National Museum is located at 201 Chapin St., just west of downtown South Bend.\u00a0 It is open Mon.-Sat., 10am-5pm, and Sun. Noon\u20135pm.\u00a0\u00a0 Admission is $10 for adults, $8.50 for seniors over 60, and $6 for youth ages 6-18.\u00a0 For more information, please call the Museum at (574) 235-9714 or toll free at (888) 391-5600 or visit our website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studebakermuseum.org\">www.studebakermuseum.org<\/a>. For an additional cost, visitors can tour the exhibits and Oliver Mansion at The History Museum, which adjoins the Studebaker National Museum.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image Courtesy of the Collections of The Henry Ford<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Presented by Matt Anderson, Curator of Transportation at The Henry Ford Museum Wednesday, November 10, 2021, at 1:30pm in the Wiekamp Auditorium; $2 admission \/ FREE to Studebaker National Museum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":11062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ford\u2019s Willow Run Bomber Plant - 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