A meeting of business and U.S. military leaders at a Consolidated Aircraft assembly plant during World War II. View of General Henry "Hap" Arnold, Consolidated Aircraft founder Reuben H. Fleet, and William S. Knudsen (President of General Motors, and appointed by President Roosevelt as Director General, Office of Production Management. He developed the "Knudsen Plan" for rapid U.S. war materiel production expansion in World War 2). The three men are walking in front of an aircraft hangar with partially finished PB2Y Coronado flying boat aircraft at the Consolidated Aircraft factory in San Diego, California. Group of American military and industrial leaders gathered talking at the site, including Henry Ford of Ford Motor Company, and James H. "Dutch" Kindelberger, President of North American Aviation. (Consolidated, North American, Douglas, and Ford all produced B-24 bombers during the war.) Change of scene: Men at unidentified location view blueprints for expanded aircraft manufacturing and assembly facilities. View of war production factory workers as they stream out of a factory at end of shift. Views of PB2Y Coronado flying boat patrol bomber, and B-24 Liberator bombers under construction. Views of factory operations with metal forging and tempering work. Views of wing and engine assembly operations.
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