American women at work in the Willow Run Consolidated B-24 Liberator aircraft production plant in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Scenes show American women working . The Willow Run manufacturing complex, located between Ypsilanti and Belleville, Michigan, was constructed in the early years of II by Ford Motor . Actor Alan Ladd portrays the role of an Army intelligence officer who used aerial reconnaissance photos to find a Nazi submarine testing facility during World . The Willow Run manufacturing plant (owned/operated by Ford Motor Company until 1946) began life in 1939 as a farm providing vocational training for young .