Production of Waco CG-4A gliders at a Ford plant in Michigan, United States during World War 2. C-47 aircraft towing gliders. view of a glider from open door of a C-47. A CG-4A glider landing on a grass field and sliding to a halt just in front of the camera. A pilot seated in the front with a glass panel across the top half of the cabin. Soldiers march to load up in CG-4A gliders. A glider comes in for a landing in sand on a beachhead, followed by another. Exteriors of Ford glider plant near Iron Mountain, Michigan. Workers cover a part of a fuselage and set up wings. They attach wings to the glider.
Ford Commercial Airplane Reliability Tour, in United States. An airfield with people moving about, during the Ford Commercial Airplane Reliability Tour. The Henry Ford Museum in the background. An aircraft on the airfield. Several people lined on the side of the airfield. Three biplanes in flight. Two men with cowboy hats posing.
Ford Rouge plant in Dearborn, United States. The final assembly line in the plant in Ford Rouge in Dearborn. Workmen at work along the assembly line. The spectators move in a queue and watch the vehicles in the assembly line from behind a barrier. Men, women and children view the vehicles. The President-elect of Mexico Pascual Ortiz Rubio along with Edsel Ford, President of the Ford Motor Company. Edsel Ford points out something to the President-elect Rubio. The men talking. Several men and women watching the vehicles in the assembly line. The vehicles are rolled out of the assembly line. A group of men stand and talk beside the line. The vehicles are rolled by the workmen one after the other out of the assembly line. Spectators standing in a line. Men, women and children come out of the plant. The vehicles driven out of the plant one behind the other. Other vehicles in the background.
Ford Thrift Gardens at Inkster in Michigan,United States. People working in the Ford Thrift Gardens. Houses beside the garden. An African American man and woman working in the vegetable garden. Views of the garden. Men at work in the garden. A man working in the garden. A paved way in between the plants. Two men at work on the garden on the other side of the way. The garden spread over a large area. A basket full of vegetables and a small bag full of fruits. A woman picks up the vegetables from the basket.
Commercial Airplane Reliability Tour for the Edsel B Ford Trophy, at the Ford Airport in Dearborn, Michigan, United States. A large crowd on the wet airfield at the Ford Airport to receive the aircraft returning to the starting point, the Ford Airport, during the Commercial Airplane Reliability Tour for the Edsel B Ford Trophy. The aircraft which came in first on the airfield after the trip. Several people beside the aircraft. Henry Ford, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and Edsel Ford, President of the company and a few men on the airfield. The aircraft in flight which came in second. The aircraft in flight over the airfield and comes in for landing. The Ford aircraft lands on the airfield. Number '30' and 'Ford' written on the aircraft. Several men beside the aircraft. The pilot gets out of the cockpit of the aircraft and walks through the crowd beside the aircraft. The pilot Eddie Hamilton and the mechanic James Phelps shakes hands with Edsel Ford, Henry Ford and other men. The pilot and the mechanic talking to the men on the airfield. A search light beam from a building at the airport. Henry Ford with a man on the airfield. A few men behind them. Men seated at tables at a dinner hosted in honor of the pilots at the Ford Airport.
Training maneuvers during Operation Alligator Hide at the White Beach Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in California, United States. Marines holding M-14 rifles walking on a grassy area. A grassy hill in the background. Two Marines of 27th Marine Regiment in the grassy area with one of them digging a position with an entrenching tool. The other Marine next to an M60 machine gun. Vehicles moving in the far background. The White Beach in view in the background. A bunker in view on the White Beach.
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