This is very near and dear to my heart. My grandfather was a young Ford exec at this time, and became the chief architect of a plan to use idle machine shops in dealerships (every dealership used to have a machine shop, but no cars were being produced and sold at this time) to produce parts for the B-24 bombers being built at Willow Run. They were falling far short of their production goal of one bomber per hour, but after Ford put this plan into action, I believe they met and even surpassed the goal. My uncle is the executive director of the museum now located at the old bomber plant. Sadly, they had a fire that destroyed their operational B-24 (that was built at that plant), but they still have a working B-17 that you can see flying over Detroit fairly often in the summer (they take people for rides for a fee). It's a little known, but amazing piece of US history, without which the campaign over Germany would've been much more difficult, if even successful at all. It definitely makes one hope that we don't ever enter into a general war again, because there's no way with our current heavy manufacturing base that we would come anywhere near what was accomplished in the 1940s. What an amazing photo. Thanks for posting!