FILE - In this July 17, 2013 file photo is the B-17G "Yankee Lady" in front of the old Willow Run Bomber Plant at Willow Run Airport in Ypsilanti Township, Mich. At President Franklin Roosevelt's urging, Ford Motor Co. switched from making cars to planes at the factory which employed 40,000 men and women who produced one an hour _ nearly 9,000 B-24 Liberator bombers in all _ to help win the World War II. Closed for good in the last decade, the plant is scheduled to be knocked down. A group trying to save the factory from demolition announced Friday, March 28, 2014, it has raised $6.5 million, but it needs $8 million and has until May 1 to make that happen. (AP Photo/File)
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