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The Willow Run Chapel [10] was the one originally built for Camp Willow Run, and became the place of worship for the Belleville Presbyterian Church in 1979 after a series of handoffs. After the war, Ford sold the chapel to Kaiser-Frazer, who in turn sold it to General Motors as part of the purchase of the Willow Run bomber plant.
Lowell Juilliard Carr (1885 – 1963) was an American sociologist, author, and long-time university professor.He is the author of the 1952 book Willow Run, which discusses the sociological conditions arising from the wartime increase in the worker population at the Willow Run bomber plant in Michigan during World War II. [1]
In 1951, the United States Air Force exercised a right of return to Willow Run and established Willow Run Air Force Station to the east of the airport runway. On 7 April 1952 the site became operational with the establishment of Headquarters, 30th Air Division at the site, which was designated P-23 by ADC.
Willow Run was a factory near Ypsilanti, Michigan in the United States that manufactured B-24 Liberator bombers during World War II. Willow Run may also refer to: Willow Run Airport, a cargo and general aviation airport on the site of the former aircraft plant Willow Run, Michigan, an unincorporated community established at the airport
Willow Run Airport, Ypsilanti, Michigan; Eastern Technical Training Command 484th Base Headquarters and Air Base Squadron Now: Public Airport (IATA: YIP, ICAO: KYIP) Also home of the Yankee Air Museum. Air Transport Command. Romulus AAF, Detroit; 3d Ferrying Group 345th Base Headquarters and Air Base Squadron Joint Use USAAF/Civil Airport
Former logo. In April 2013, Yankee Air Museum and RACER Trust, owner of the former General Motors Willow Run plant, announced a plan for Yankee Air Museum to acquire a 175,000-square-foot (16,300 m 2) portion of the factory, contingent upon the museum raising the funds necessary to preserve and secure their proposed portion of the facility.
Willow Run Laboratories was created in 1946, and in 1950, in recognition of an expanded research program, its name was changed to Willow Run Research Center, [1] which would eventually be spun off from the University in 1972 to form the Environmental Research Institute of Michigan. [2]
2006 USGS photo. Willow Run Airport covers 2,392 acres (968 ha) and has two runways, a continuously staffed FAA control tower, and US Customs operations. [1] It is one of two facilities operated by the Wayne County Airport Authority, the other being Detroit Metropolitan Airport, which replaced Willow Run as the major commercial airport for the region starting in 1958.