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Wendell Wilkie attends dedication of aircraft plant in Nashville where Vultee P-66 Vanguard aircraft are produced.

Wendell Wilkie waves from the top of the boarding ramp by his Douglas DC-3-178 - American Airlines Flagship-Virginia, acknowledging people greeting him at the new Vultee aircraft plant in Nashville, Tennessee. An African American man in uniform stands by as Wilkie descends the ramp. Scene shifts to a sizeable crowd waving from behind a fence on the airfield. An aerial view shows the factory and its airfield. Closer view of factory building itself. Next, a huge crowd is seen behind a fence, where a Vultee P-66 is displayed on a stand above the fence. It bears a British Royal Air Force roundel on its fuselage. U.S. Air Army Air Forces Officers and some Boy Scouts pose in front ot the aircraft. Wendel Wilkie is seen next, at a speaker's stand arrayed with microphones. It is decorated and displays the Vultee company Logo. Special guests in front of the stand, are seated on folding chairs. Closeup of Wilkie. Company officials are seen on a platform next to a Vultee P-66. Closeup of two young girls on the platform. One wields a bottle of Champaign to Christen the plane. Spectators applaud. A P-66 takes off from the airfield and climbs away.

Date: 1941
Duration: 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039319
Jump tower is built at Fort Bennning in Geogia to train parachutists.

Shows a jump tower at Fort Benning in Georgia. Man working on tower. A parachutist jumping from tower during training and landing near the trees.

Date: 1941
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039320
Views of A-29 Hudson bomber and United States Air Force P-38 in flight.

View of Hudson bombers (A-29) and workers inside Lockheed aircraft Plant where these planes are produced. A Hudson bomber taking off. U.S. Army Air Force P-38 is towed out of hangar, taking off and in flight.

Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039321
Pilot puts on oxygen mask and helmet before boarding United States Army Air Force plane P-38.

U.S. Army Air Force plane P-38 taxiing in. Pilot puts on oxygen mask along with helmet and rides a bicycle. Pilot boards P-38 and P-38 in flight

Date: 1941
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039322
Six B-17Bs in flight over California.

Views of six Boeing B-17B bombers in flight over California. They fly in loose formation over clouds. The snow-covered San Jacinto mountains are seen in the background.

Date: 1941
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039324
Aircraft Curtiss P-40C on ramp firing six machine guns at ground target.

Views of pilot loading bullets. Indicators of aircraft and pilot pulling triggers of aircraft Curtiss P-40C. P-40C on ramp firing six machine guns on the ground target. (World War II period).

Date: 1941
Duration: 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039325