Air service production center at Romorantin, France. United States soldiers stand and talk to each other as railroad flat cars carrying large crates move in the background. A slip on the crate shows location, destination and number on the address slip. American soldiers push crates from flat cars onto trucks. Railroad crane lifts crate from a stack, moves along railroad and places the crate in a dolly. Soldiers pull the dolly carrying crates.
Air service production center at Romorantin, France. Captain James A Buchanan and Lieutenant JH Coleman come out 805th Aero Squadron building. Construction site with numerous wood logs on the ground. Workers at assembly shop. Men assemble Liberty engines and prepare them for testing. Engines installed in DH-4 planes and assembly of fuselage. Men work on machine gun mounts, engine assembled and cockpit of DH-4 planes. A row of mechanics assembles DH-4 engines. Final engine test of Liberty engine in DH-4 fuselage.
Air service production center at Romorantin, France. Men and women take DH-4 wing section in assembly area. French women assemble DH-4 wings, several boxed wing sections. Workers pull boxed DH-4 wings on a dolly, spars between upper and lower wings. Workers pull DH-4 fuselage with wheels, engine and propellers to assembly line. French women attach stabilizer and rudders to DH-4 fuselage. Women sort out plane wires. Workers attach wings to fuselage of DH-4.
Air service production center at Romorantin, France. A tractor pulls a DH-4 plane along a road to a group of hangars. French and American officers in front of a DH-4 plane with an American flag draped over its engine. Women carry French and British flag. Edith Normant presents Captain Osborne with a bouquet of flowers on behalf of the French government. A ceremony in front of DH-4 with French and American officials. United States Air Force officer ties an American flag to the strut of DH-4 plane. Plane taxis, takes off and in flight over Air service production center no 2 at Romorantin, Loir-et-Cher, France. Pilot and observer get out of DH-4 plane and people walk up to congratulate them. Officer of the production board of the Air service center no2 stands in front of a DH-4 plane. French General de L' Espee and Major Robert J Bates Commander of Air Service Production Center stand in front of DH-4 plane. Lieutenant Colonel WC Allen and Major WH Wardwell shake hands. American officer lined up in front of a headquarters of Air Service Production Center no2. Colonel EV Summer, Junior Commander Air Service Production.