Crowd including National Defense workers and their families at a Boeing Aircraft plant in Seattle. Aircraft workers and their families inspecting aircraft B-17Ds. 7th Bomb Group B-17Ds in flight and makes a formation over Mount Rainier. Shows aircraft flying over Mount Rainier. (World War II period).
Demonstration for aircraft workers and civilians. Views of 6 B-17D planes over Mount Rainier. Glaciers in background.
Views of Martin bombers in production at Middle River, Maryland. Special tempering of aircraft parts in sodium nitrate bath at 900 degrees. Aircraft workers working on aircraft parts. Eight B-26s being prepared and crated for shipment abroad.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing Lend-Lease Act in the White House during World War 2. He later signs bill approving first transfer of war material. U.S. Ambassador John D. Winant greeting King George VI of England. Shows four old American destroyers entering British Harbor as a part of Lend-Lease plan and Navy Department Munitions Building in Washington D.C.
Shows P-40C’s in production at Curtiss plant in Buffalo, NY (2303 Kenmore Avenue), getting readied for shipment to United Kingdom as a part of Lend-Lease program. Aircraft workers working in Curtiss plant. P-40 fighter plane taxiing and planes in flight line at Curtiss facilities at the Buffalo Airport.
Omaha Class U.S. cruisers at sea. B-17 D Flying Fortesses lined up to take off. A B-17 D Flying Fortess takes off. Flying Fortess in formation with close up of engine and spinning propellers. PT boats (patrol torpedo boats) under construction at factory. PT boat at sea. Formation of PT boats at sea. Narrator notes that all equipment is bound for England as part of the Lend Lease Act. USA flag superimposed over signature page of the Lend Lease Act.
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