Editing Willow Run (section)

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| name                 = Ford's Willow Run Assembly Plant of Aircraft
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| built                = <!-- {{Start date|1941|04|18|df=y}} -->
| operated             = <!-- {{Start date|1942|12|20|df=y}}-<br />{{End date|1945|06|30|df=y}}-->
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| industry             = Aircraft Assembly
| products             = B-24 Liberator aircraft
| employees            = 42,500
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| area                 = 3.5 million-square-foot
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| owner                = U.S. government
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| defunct              = <!-- {{End date|2014|06|30}} -->
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{{Short description|Manufacturing complex in Michigan, US}}
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[[File:B-24 bomber at Willow Run.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|B-24s under construction at Willow Run]]
'''Willow Run''', also known as '''Air Force Plant 31''', was a manufacturing complex in [[Michigan]], United States, located between [[Ypsilanti Township, Michigan|Ypsilanti Township]] and [[Belleville, Michigan|Belleville]], built by the [[Ford Motor Company]] to manufacture aircraft, especially the [[Consolidated B-24 Liberator]] heavy bomber.<ref name=Willowrun>{{cite news |last=Nolan |first=Jenny |date=January 28, 1997 |url=http://info.detnews.com/redesign/history/story/historytemplate.cfm?id=73&category=locations |title=Willow Run and the Arsenal of Democracy |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121204140927/http://info.detnews.com/redesign/history/story/historytemplate.cfm?id=73&category=locations |archive-date=December 4, 2012 |work=[[The Detroit News]] |access-date=December 24, 2017}}</ref> Construction of the Willow Run Bomber Plant began in 1940<ref>{{cite web|title=Willow Run Bomber Plant, Beginning Construction, 1940 |url=http://oldnews.aadl.org/N015_0858_001 |publisher=[[The Ann Arbor News]] |access-date=July 29, 2017}}</ref> and was completed in 1942.