An aircraft manufacturing plant in Tennessee, United States, shortly before the entry of the United States into World War 2. Interior of the plant where aircraft for Lockheed, Martin, Northrop, Boeing and North American corporations are built. A sign :'US Army Process'. Training airplanes are build. Men work on a machine. Men work on aircraft. A man beside the propeller of an aircraft. Molten metal is processed. Machines and war production workers produce war material like engines and munitions shells. A tower and cable lines. A machine in operation. Steam boilers in operation. Men work with a welding machine. Seals are put on supplies before transporting them outside. Giant trucks carry the supplies out of the plant. The supplies are transported via railroad trains.
U.S. troops prepare to entrain at the New York port of embarkation, heading for service in the European Theater during World War II. U.S. soldiers with full packs and barrack bags move. A railroad train in the background. The soldiers move on a train platform. They stand beside railroad train cars.
U.S. troops bound for New York City port of embarkation for transportation to the European Theater war front during World War II. U.S. soldiers with full packs and helmets on a ferry boat. The ferry boat moves across a river in New York, on its way to troop transport ship.
AAU (Amateur Athletic Union) track meet in College Park, Maryland. A crowd sitting in the stands. Athletes participate in pole vaulting, shot put and hurdle race.
U.S. President Harry S. Truman dedicates Friendship International Airport in Anne Arundel County Maryland, United States, south of Baltimore. Aerial view of the new airport. A sign on a terminal building reads 'Friendship International Airport'. President Truman disembarks from an aircraft together with Baltimore Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro, Jr., and is greeted by officials. He reviews an honor guard. A crowd seated during the dedication ceremony. The President speaks into a microphone and gives a short address (sound is present in clip for this portion). (The airport was later renamed Baltimore/Washington International Airport, and subsequently, Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. Also known as BWI.)
Celebrities at 21 Club in New York City, New York. Mack Kreindler talks to guests in the foyer of 21 Club. Celebrities seated with the Kreindler Brothers. Peter Kreindler, Elliot Roosevelt, Mr. and Mrs. Faye Emerson, Orson Welles, Bob Kreindler and Jimmy Burns talk to each other.
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