American aircraft manufacturer that produced the B-24 Liberator bomber — the most-produced American military aircraft of WWII — before merging into Convair.
The B-24 Liberator was produced in greater numbers (18,482) than any other American military aircraft in history — manufactured at massive scale through Ford's Willow Run plant (the 'bomber plant that bombed Hitler') and other facilities. Consolidated's contribution to WWII industrial production represents the American mobilization achievement at its most dramatic: going from peacetime aircraft production to industrial-scale bomber manufacturing in three years.
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