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.
Aircraft workers working in Stearman Plant at Wichita. Shows Major Harris, U.S. Army Air Corps, accepting delivery of 1000 PT-17 planes from J.E.Schaefer in Stearman Plant. Shows major boarding aircraft which takes off and aircrafts flying overhead.
Shows Henry Ford and Edsel Ford inspecting bomber aircraft B-24 Liberator. View of Henry Ford, Edsel Ford and U.S. Army Air Corps Officers near aircraft.
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