A 3.5-million-square-foot factory with an assembly line more than a mile long that made a 90-degree turn, by legend to stay inside Washtenaw County's tax line. This episode traces the full life of Willow Run in Michigan, starting with Henry Ford's 1931 purchase of farmland for Camp Willow Run, a social experiment where teenage sons of World War I veterans lived in tents year-round, ran their own government, and worshipped in a chapel that still holds services today.

When the Liberator Production Pool Program needed B-24 bombers at automotive scale, Ford built Albert Kahn's giant plant with his own money, then collided with the gap between stamped steel and hand-riveted aluminum. We cover the 1943 congressional criticism, the crews who preferred B-17s, the 42,500-person workforce, the housing crisis that produced the cultural inadequacy theo ...