Boeing S Forgotten World War Ii Factories King5 Seattle many people, if not most around the puget sound area, know that seattle built nearly 7,000 b 17 bombers in world war ii. some know the 737 factory in renton, which ushered in the jet age. Shipyards were building ships, of course, boeing was famously building the b 17 bomber, which helped win the war in europe and a big factory along the duwamish river that very famously, didn't.
Boeing S Forgotten World War Ii Factories King5 Historian feliks banel says magnuson park sand point was the 1924 site of the famous around the world flight by the u.s. army. seattle — the site of the most aviation history in the northwest. Posted 9 08 2015. historylink.org essay 11111. the boeing company, founded in 1916, hit a low point in 1934 when it was forced out of the airline business and was forced to concentrate on its original airplane manufacturing business. the company's fortunes revived in the buildup to world war ii. Boeing’s aircraft manufacturing facilities were critical to the world war ii efforts of allied forces. but the unexpected attack on pearl harbor stoked fears of potential aerial assaults by japanese forces. some factories put up camouflage netting to disguise structures, but the u.s. army corps of engineers took things a big step further on top. Boeing plant 2 was a large, modern facility covering 165,000 square meters (750,000 sq ft). with 30,000 employees, it was capable of building 300 b 17 bombers a month almost entirely in house, and had nearby access to an airfield for completed aircraft to depart from. just under 7,000 b 17s were built at boeing’s plant 2.
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