German Spies Couldn’t Believe Ford Built a Bomber Every Hour — The Secret of Willow Run

In 1943, German intelligence intercepted a report claiming that Ford Motor Company had built a factory capable of producing a 1.5-million-part heavy bomber every sixty-three minutes. The Nazis called it impossible. History called it Willow Run. This WWII documentary tells the true story of how American democracy and industrial genius stunned the world — transforming a patch of Michigan farmland into the largest factory on Earth and turning freedom itself into a weapon. Through declassified intelligence files, eyewitness accounts, and U.S. War Department archives, discover how Ford’s mile-long assembly line produced the B-24 Liberator — a machine that helped break the Luftwaffe and prove that liberty could outbuild tyranny. Tags: WW2 documentary World War 2 history German spies WWII Ford bomber factory Willow Run plant B24 Liberator production Arsenal of Democracy American war industry Ford Motor Company WWII Industrial miracle German intelligence WWII WW2 bombers documentary WWII in color Albert Speer memoir Nazi Germany downfall WW2 manufacturing Rosie the Riveter US Air Force history WWII aircraft factory Freedom vs tyranny