War Factories | Episode 5: US Aviation | Free Documentary History

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War Factories - The Secret History of WW II: Episode 5 - US Aviation | History Documentary

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America is completely underprepared for aircraft warfare when war breaks out. The Luftwaffe has almost a decade on them in preparation time. America does not even have a separate air force before the war. America needs aircraft fast, and in unprecedentedly huge numbers. But there is no American aircraft company that can even begin to conceive of producing in these numbers. In fact there is no aircraft manufacturer anywhere in the world that could begin to countenance such an order. Across the globe up until this point, aircraft product has been a boutique affair, with highly skilled workers catering to a small luxury market.

Henry Ford. Ford is slow to joint the war effort (in the early years of Nazi rule, he had expressed admiration for them), but he would play more than his part in bringing Hitler down. Ford sets out with the help of Albert Kahn, to build a giant new factory in Michigan. It covers an incredibly three and a half million square feet, and includes an aircraft production line half a mile in length. The factory is called Willow Run. And it is the largest factory the world has ever seen.

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