By the time Willow Run was operating at full capacity, a B-24 was rolling off the mile-long rural assembly line every 55 minutes. A Liberator an hour. The nation needed those planes, and it got them. By war’s end, factories across the U.S. had built nearly 300,000 military aircraft.
Mike – Fox Business has a program called “American Built” hosted by Stuart Varney. I remember a show about Willow Run and how Ford was involved in building that production line. It is on Fox Nation Season 2. The link seems to work without the need to have a subscription. I finally signed up for it since there are some interesting history programs.
He also did shows on the Ford Rouge River plant, the Mackinac Bridge, and the Michigan Stadium.
The algorithm suggested this video and I’m glad it did. As much as Horowitz did to expose the true nature of the left, he also helped to expose islamists. The video saddened me, as we no longer have this warrior amongst us. RIP
You should check out this book. It has tons of detail on the Willow run operation and much more along those lines. How tanks and Liberty ships were mass produced is included.
Actually, there was much studying and analysis of how large airplanes were currently being made before they could even begin to plan out something like Willow Run.
Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II Paperback – July 2, 2013
by Arthur Herman (Author)
sdferr,
Your Orioles are nearly as bad as my White Sox. What’s going on in Charm City?
The easy answer is put down to key injuries, but as losses mount the questions widen to issues like young guys expected to “grow and improve” failing at that, instead forgetting how to play with basic competence, grinding against their own desires, locking up with over-burdened anxiety, on the one hand, and a poorly functioning front office off-season performance (hiring Charlie Morton say, rather than going hard after young studs like Crochet), on the other. It’s painful though, I gotta say, but not unaccustomed. I mean, I lived through 0-21 in ’88, so this is a cakewalk by comparison.
For White Sox fans it’s deja vu all over again.
And Gunnar cranks a 2r hr as we speak. It ain’t over ’til it’s over . . . and Kremer gives up a solo shot to follow: 3-1 O’s vs Minn.
aaaaand a 2 out 3r hr! 4-3 Minn. To guy hitting .170
At least they’re still drawing well. Was there in April for two games against the Reds. The Friday night game was packed, and good crowd Saturday as well. Beautiful ballpark. Went to the Babe Ruth museum before the game. Highly recommend.
Place looks empty in this 1st game of a doubleheader today.
RTF and sdferr,
Not as bad as the Rockies.
On Willow run. B24s are much less complicated than a modern jet . I’m not trying cut Boeing any slack as their production is obviously in the toilet.
Heh, so you didn’t catch that Sunday game, Mike! The less said about that, the better.
Poor addled Joe didn’t do it. He was merely the non compos mentis-in-chief, it was obvious, and it took a village. George Clooney and the whole Dem establishment are culpable of elder abuse. Point those fingers at the mirror.
The Democrats have a point:
Only an exceedingly clever, devious and entirely unscrupulous man like “Joe Biden” could have torpedoed the chances of his—there are simply no words so we’ll have to go with “brilliant-in-every-way”—VP…
Re: New Yorker article mentioned by Banned Lizard
I couldn’t get through the pay wall at the New Yorker. Here’s a working link:
— Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, “How Joe Biden Handed the Presidency to Donald Trump” https://archive.is/fv6sB
It’s worth a quick read. There’s a whole lotta CYA goin’ on. Nonetheless it does conclude:
______________________________
Democrats deceived the country about Biden’s abilities and, Clooney said, “that’s how Trump won.”
______________________________
Of course, there was much more to it than that.
I navigated to the following post via one of the realclear sites today:
I was astounded to read that federal regulations may be written to include criminal penalties. For some reason, I was under the impression that that criminal laws had to be statutory in the first instance. The post does not address or explain this issue; I would like to have seen more background on it. But the direction Trump is taking will hopefully be salutary.
The Tapper and Thompson book is titled “Original Sin.” I wondered if it had something to do with the corresponding Christian doctrine. Which seemed a pretentious overreach.
But no, it refers to Biden’s original sin in choosing to run again.
This seems to be the limited hang-out route Democrats and media have chosen to rationalize their loss in 2024.
That’s right. Democrats would have had 2024 sewn up except for that senile fool, Joe Biden.
Posting is delayed today because I’m having connectivity difficulties. I’m trying to resolve them, but at the moment it’s ongoing. Sorry!
I’ve had trouble loading the blog this afternoon. News reports say there is a big solar storm going on, which may be affecting some sites.
Boss…I was just about to say “Getting the ‘Too many requests ‘ notice over the last 2 days and slowed connection time,” but you’re already on it.
This could be yuge. The case (Trump v, CASA) was originally about birthright citizenship, but it looks like the Supremes split off the part of the case where nationwide injunctions were challenged. Oral arguments are on May 15.
The birthright case Is also yuge and not a slamdunk as the Left claims.
Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Nationwide Injunctions in Trump v. CASA
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Thursday in a case that could have major implications for the future of executive authority and the use of nationwide injunctions by federal district courts.
The consolidated case, Trump v. CASA, centers on President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for children born in the United States to illegal immigrants—a policy blocked by multiple lower courts.
Three federal district judges issued nationwide injunctions that prevented the Trump administration from implementing the order, despite the executive branch’s longstanding constitutional authority over immigration matters.
The high court is now being asked to consider whether such sweeping judicial actions overstep the proper role of the courts.
The two Boeing 747s being converted for AF-1 were apparently built for a Russian air line that went bankrupt and were parked in the desert.
Wikipedia
On 1 August 2017, Defense One reported that in an effort to pay less for the replacement program, the USAF entered into a contract to purchase two 747-8 Intercontinental (747-8I) jets from Boeing, which had originally been ordered in 2011 by Transaero, a Russian airline. Before they could be delivered, Transaero filed for bankruptcy and was closed down; the two aircraft were stored at Southern California Logistics Airport in the Mojave Desert to prevent corrosion. On 27 February 2018, the White House announced a US$3.9 billion (~$4.66 billion in 2023) agreement with Boeing to modify the two unsold 747-8s to replace the VC-25As. The new aircraft is to be designated VC-25B.
Meanwhile…
From breitbart
Qatar signs an agreement with Boeing to purchase 160 aircraft — the largest widebody aircraft order in the American company’s history
Willow Run…it should be noted that it was Edsel Ford who signed the contract to build the plant and bombers, committing $200MM of the company’s money (a lot of money in those days) based on nothing more than a rough sketch. Henry Ford had adopted what might be called a passive-aggressive attitude toward the whole thing.
I wrote about Willow Run and the attempt to save the plant as a museum here:
The issue in Trump’s EO is to ensure regulations with criminal penalties [rather than civil ones?] also are read and interpreted to incorporate the legal concept of means rea or “intent to do harm” as part of charging someone with a crime. Some regulations and legislation apparently do not include that common sense criteria in defining what is a crime. Thus someone can be charged for doing something criminal even though they did not know it was a crime and did not intend to commit a crime. Clearly, excessive numbers of situations like that make a joke of the rule of law, or worse.
But as with all EO’s, really Congress needs to clean this mess up that they created via loose or vague or arbitrary or capricious legislative language.
I’ve been reading about the inventor & entrepreneur Joseph Gerber, who came to the US from Nazi Austrian in 1940 and created a whole string of inventions, ultimately being dubbed ‘the Thomas Edison of apparel’ by the trade magazine Bobbin Journal for his invention of numerically-controlled fabric cutters and sewing machines. We could use a few Joe Gerbers currently to assist with the reshoring of American manufacturing.
Reading about Gerber also pointed me to a great archive of radio & tv programs, the Cavalcade of America series sponsored by DuPont, which ran from 1935-1957.
Absolutely fascinating.
The U.S. Once Built Airplanes Quickly
https://archive.md/l3V4t
Mike – Fox Business has a program called “American Built” hosted by Stuart Varney. I remember a show about Willow Run and how Ford was involved in building that production line. It is on Fox Nation Season 2. The link seems to work without the need to have a subscription. I finally signed up for it since there are some interesting history programs.
Here is the link – https://nation.foxnews.com/watch/72df0c5660ff9c06a915e9d0bf271627/
He also did shows on the Ford Rouge River plant, the Mackinac Bridge, and the Michigan Stadium.
The algorithm suggested this video and I’m glad it did. As much as Horowitz did to expose the true nature of the left, he also helped to expose islamists. The video saddened me, as we no longer have this warrior amongst us. RIP
https://youtu.be/WHWdgqXNs3s?si=VmLpeLo_ZAof5aWX
Mike,
You should check out this book. It has tons of detail on the Willow run operation and much more along those lines. How tanks and Liberty ships were mass produced is included.
Actually, there was much studying and analysis of how large airplanes were currently being made before they could even begin to plan out something like Willow Run.
Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II Paperback – July 2, 2013
by Arthur Herman (Author)
sdferr,
Your Orioles are nearly as bad as my White Sox. What’s going on in Charm City?
The easy answer is put down to key injuries, but as losses mount the questions widen to issues like young guys expected to “grow and improve” failing at that, instead forgetting how to play with basic competence, grinding against their own desires, locking up with over-burdened anxiety, on the one hand, and a poorly functioning front office off-season performance (hiring Charlie Morton say, rather than going hard after young studs like Crochet), on the other. It’s painful though, I gotta say, but not unaccustomed. I mean, I lived through 0-21 in ’88, so this is a cakewalk by comparison.
For White Sox fans it’s deja vu all over again.
And Gunnar cranks a 2r hr as we speak. It ain’t over ’til it’s over . . . and Kremer gives up a solo shot to follow: 3-1 O’s vs Minn.
aaaaand a 2 out 3r hr! 4-3 Minn. To guy hitting .170
At least they’re still drawing well. Was there in April for two games against the Reds. The Friday night game was packed, and good crowd Saturday as well. Beautiful ballpark. Went to the Babe Ruth museum before the game. Highly recommend.
Place looks empty in this 1st game of a doubleheader today.
RTF and sdferr,
Not as bad as the Rockies.
On Willow run. B24s are much less complicated than a modern jet . I’m not trying cut Boeing any slack as their production is obviously in the toilet.
Heh, so you didn’t catch that Sunday game, Mike! The less said about that, the better.
Dems in a finger-pointing blame fest:
How Joe Biden Handed the Presidency to Donald Trump
‘It’s all Biden’: Top Harris adviser blames former president for 2024 loss
Poor addled Joe didn’t do it. He was merely the non compos mentis-in-chief, it was obvious, and it took a village. George Clooney and the whole Dem establishment are culpable of elder abuse. Point those fingers at the mirror.
The Democrats have a point:
Only an exceedingly clever, devious and entirely unscrupulous man like “Joe Biden” could have torpedoed the chances of his—there are simply no words so we’ll have to go with “brilliant-in-every-way”—VP…
Re: New Yorker article mentioned by Banned Lizard
I couldn’t get through the pay wall at the New Yorker. Here’s a working link:
— Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, “How Joe Biden Handed the Presidency to Donald Trump”
https://archive.is/fv6sB
It’s worth a quick read. There’s a whole lotta CYA goin’ on. Nonetheless it does conclude:
______________________________
Democrats deceived the country about Biden’s abilities and, Clooney said, “that’s how Trump won.”
______________________________
Of course, there was much more to it than that.
I navigated to the following post via one of the realclear sites today:
https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/13/donald-trump-just-made-it-harder-to-go-to-federal-prison/
I was astounded to read that federal regulations may be written to include criminal penalties. For some reason, I was under the impression that that criminal laws had to be statutory in the first instance. The post does not address or explain this issue; I would like to have seen more background on it. But the direction Trump is taking will hopefully be salutary.
The Tapper and Thompson book is titled “Original Sin.” I wondered if it had something to do with the corresponding Christian doctrine. Which seemed a pretentious overreach.
But no, it refers to Biden’s original sin in choosing to run again.
This seems to be the limited hang-out route Democrats and media have chosen to rationalize their loss in 2024.
That’s right. Democrats would have had 2024 sewn up except for that senile fool, Joe Biden.
Posting is delayed today because I’m having connectivity difficulties. I’m trying to resolve them, but at the moment it’s ongoing. Sorry!
I’ve had trouble loading the blog this afternoon. News reports say there is a big solar storm going on, which may be affecting some sites.
Boss…I was just about to say “Getting the ‘Too many requests ‘ notice over the last 2 days and slowed connection time,” but you’re already on it.
This could be yuge. The case (Trump v, CASA) was originally about birthright citizenship, but it looks like the Supremes split off the part of the case where nationwide injunctions were challenged. Oral arguments are on May 15.
The birthright case Is also yuge and not a slamdunk as the Left claims.
Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Nationwide Injunctions in Trump v. CASA
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Thursday in a case that could have major implications for the future of executive authority and the use of nationwide injunctions by federal district courts.
The consolidated case, Trump v. CASA, centers on President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for children born in the United States to illegal immigrants—a policy blocked by multiple lower courts.
Three federal district judges issued nationwide injunctions that prevented the Trump administration from implementing the order, despite the executive branch’s longstanding constitutional authority over immigration matters.
The high court is now being asked to consider whether such sweeping judicial actions overstep the proper role of the courts.
https://www.lifezette.com/2025/05/supreme-court-to-hear-challenge-to-nationwide-injunctions-in-trump-v-casa/
The two Boeing 747s being converted for AF-1 were apparently built for a Russian air line that went bankrupt and were parked in the desert.
Wikipedia
On 1 August 2017, Defense One reported that in an effort to pay less for the replacement program, the USAF entered into a contract to purchase two 747-8 Intercontinental (747-8I) jets from Boeing, which had originally been ordered in 2011 by Transaero, a Russian airline. Before they could be delivered, Transaero filed for bankruptcy and was closed down; the two aircraft were stored at Southern California Logistics Airport in the Mojave Desert to prevent corrosion. On 27 February 2018, the White House announced a US$3.9 billion (~$4.66 billion in 2023) agreement with Boeing to modify the two unsold 747-8s to replace the VC-25As. The new aircraft is to be designated VC-25B.
Meanwhile…
From breitbart
Qatar signs an agreement with Boeing to purchase 160 aircraft — the largest widebody aircraft order in the American company’s history
Willow Run…it should be noted that it was Edsel Ford who signed the contract to build the plant and bombers, committing $200MM of the company’s money (a lot of money in those days) based on nothing more than a rough sketch. Henry Ford had adopted what might be called a passive-aggressive attitude toward the whole thing.
I wrote about Willow Run and the attempt to save the plant as a museum here:
https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/41732.html
Watt on May 14, 2025 at 4:11 pm
In regard to criminalization of the regulations derived from the criminal code, you might like to check out longish 2022 report: https://www.heritage.org/crime-and-justice/report/count-the-code-quantifying-federalization-criminal-statutes
or more summary version from 2025: https://www.heritage.org/crime-and-justice/report/quantifying-and-remedying-overcriminalization-federal-law
The issue in Trump’s EO is to ensure regulations with criminal penalties [rather than civil ones?] also are read and interpreted to incorporate the legal concept of means rea or “intent to do harm” as part of charging someone with a crime. Some regulations and legislation apparently do not include that common sense criteria in defining what is a crime. Thus someone can be charged for doing something criminal even though they did not know it was a crime and did not intend to commit a crime. Clearly, excessive numbers of situations like that make a joke of the rule of law, or worse.
But as with all EO’s, really Congress needs to clean this mess up that they created via loose or vague or arbitrary or capricious legislative language.
I’ve been reading about the inventor & entrepreneur Joseph Gerber, who came to the US from Nazi Austrian in 1940 and created a whole string of inventions, ultimately being dubbed ‘the Thomas Edison of apparel’ by the trade magazine Bobbin Journal for his invention of numerically-controlled fabric cutters and sewing machines. We could use a few Joe Gerbers currently to assist with the reshoring of American manufacturing.
Reading about Gerber also pointed me to a great archive of radio & tv programs, the Cavalcade of America series sponsored by DuPont, which ran from 1935-1957.
https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/74024.html