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Manufacture and deployment of Boeing B-29 Super Fortress bombers during World War II
Film beginning shows a line of Indian women carrying large wooden bowls on their heads as they walk past a line of Boeing B-29 Super Fortress bombers parked on an airfield ramp in India during World War 2. A B-29 bomber descends and lands on the airfield runway. Scene shifts to the Boeing factory at Wichita, Kansas, where most of the aircraft were manufactured during World War 2. (They were also made by Bell Aircraft Company in Atlanta (Marietta), Georgia, and by the Glenn L. Martin Company in Omaha, Nebraska.) In the Wichita plant, a large room filled with B-29s under construction is seen. A line of women uses hand power tools to finish aircraft parts. A large section of a B-29, including landing gear and tires, moves by overhead crane to be mated with another section in an assembly operation. Men manually push a landing gear with tires installed, along a floor. Workers walk along underneath an assembled B-29 as it is towed out of the factory. Tail view of a B-29 with engines running. View of man working on a B-29 tail rudder. Wing flaps being lowered in function check. Scene shifts, again, this time to China, where a line of B-29s is seen on a ramp at a secret base. A jeep drives under the left wing of a parked B-29, guarded by an armed Chinese sentry. Chinese laborers work with hand tools to make a ditch to drain water from the airfield ramp. Chinese workers unload and roll 55 gallon drums of gasoline for aircraft fueling. A Chinese name (Ding How!)painted on the fuselage of a B-29. Major General Claire Chennault shakes hands with some of a B-29s crew as they prepare to depart on a bombing mission. A Chinese soldier gives the crew a "thumbs up" sendoff. The B-29 takes off on the mission. a group of airmen sit atop a B-29 to watch the takeoffs. Camera focuses on another takeoff and then shows a B-29 aloft, glinting in sunlight and then cruising above clouds. Glimpse of B-29 flying over snow covered mountains (possibly in Japan).
British plane flies over Burmese jungles and carries injured soldiers fighting on Burma front during World War II.
Allied planes fly over Burmese jungles and maintain the supply lines for their forces fighting in the China Burma India Theater during World War II. A British Short Sunderland Flying Boat aircraft flies over jungles in Burma and lands in a lake. Natives on a raft load supplies in the plane from the raft. Another raft arrives with injured soldiers fighting on Burmese front. The wounded taken for treatment in the airplane.
Civilians struggle to get water from communal water supply during acute water supply shortage in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong.
Acute water supply shortage in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong. An area overcrowded from refugees from Mainland China. Civilians struggle to get water from the communal water supply. Communal taps fill water containers. Reservoirs of water near the colony dried from a drought. Children carry cans filled with water.
U.S. President Nixon talks to Bipartisan Congressional leaders in the Cabinet Room of the White House.
U.S. President Richard Nixon in a meeting with Bipartisan Congressional leaders in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington DC. Nixon and other leaders sitting at a meeting table. President Richard Nixon in the Cabinet Room with Bipartisan leaders a day after his return from People's Republic of China. The President talks and the Bipartisan leaders listen. Secretary of Treasury John Connally sits near the President.
U.S. President Nixon arrives and sits at a meeting with Bipartisan Congressional leaders in the White House.
U.S. President Richard Nixon in a meeting with Bipartisan Congressional leaders in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington DC. President Nixon in the Cabinet Room with Bipartisan leaders a day after his return from People's Republic of China. The President arrives and takes his seat. Other Bipartisan leaders sit on their chairs after President sits. Bipartisan leaders and secretaries talk to each other.
President Nixon discusses with Secretary Rogers and Dr. Kissinger about their overseas trips at the White House, Washington DC.
U.S. President Richard M. Nixon with Secretary William Rogers and Secretary Henry Kissinger at the Oval Office of the White House, Washington DC. President Nixon talks to Secretary Rogers and Dr. Kissinger in a library. They discuss Dr. Kissinger's trip to China and Secretary Rogers overseas trip.