American women at work in war production jobs in the United States during World War 2. American women work for the war production to help the soldiers and to increase the manpower. Smoke from the chimneys of factories. Crane at a harbor. Exterior of an ammunition factory. U.S. Army Air Forces B-24 Liberators under construction in a factory. A woman types a document, seated at a desk. Other woman work along with her. Women in uniforms. Women wash cars. Women pumping gas at gas stations. Women work at farms. 3 planes fly in formation. Women watch the planes in flight. Cars arrive outside a building. Women exit the cars. They work in the aircraft factory. Men work in the factory. Woman work along with them. A poster reads: 'Women in the war'. Women being instructed about the engine of the aircraft. They work on different parts of the plane. They work on a tiny equipment. Men serve food to women. Women seated at table as they eat food. Other women work on the tail section of the aircraft. The planes ready to be tested as they are parked outside the factory. A plane taxis on the airfield. Planes fly in formation.
German carpenter Bruno Richard Hauptmann arrested in United States. Hauptmann suspected of the kidnapping of the son of American aviator Charles Lindbergh. A trail of marked ransom bills leads to his arrest. Exterior of a house. Men inspecting the ransom bills and other proofs and evidence.
Sea plane loaded with mails in the United States. The government removes the transportation of postal matter from the hands of private companies. Men load mails in the plane. Pilot in the cockpit. Sea plane takes off.
People suffer due to various disasters in the year 1949. Destruction in Ecuador due to the 1949 Ambato earthquake. A house falling apart during an earthquake. Rubble of houses, buildings, and churches in the Tungurahua Province. People clear the rubble and take out the dead bodies. Damage caused to livestock due to blizzard in the western plains of the United States. Dead cattle lie in the snow. A calf staggers in heavy snow. Airplanes drop fodder down to cattle for food. People gather at airplane crash site for Eastern Airlines flight 537 on November 1, 1949, after the passenger airplane, bound for a landing at Washington National Airport, had a mid-air collision with a military Lockheed P-38, and crashed beside the west bank of the Potomac River. Crash site of the Eastern Air Lines Douglas DC-4 (N88727) at Alexandria, Virginia. People moving dead bodies of passengers on stretchers. The steamer SS Noronic destroyed due to fire in Toronto harbor. View of the wrecked, smoking passenger ship. Dead bodies of the passengers being moved. People cry and mourn.
High profile celebrity weddings in 1949. People gather to witness the wedding of Prince Aly Khan with Hollywood actress Rita Hayworth on May 27, 1949. Prince Ali Salman Aga Khan is the Vice President of the United Nations General Assembly. Rita Hayworth and Prince Aly Khan marries in Château de l'Horizon (55 Av. Edith Joseph, 06220 Vallauris, France), near Cannes, France. United States Vice President Alben W. Barkley marries Jane Rucker Hadley at St. John's Methodist Church in St. Louis, Missouri on November 18, 1949. Wedding cake at the wedding of Vice President Barkley. The newlywed couple is shown smiling.
History of aviation. A balloon in flight. Historic glider such as that which interested U.S. War Department as early as 1898. In 1903, a crew of men moving a Wright Flyer into position. Two men turn over propellers on a Wright Flyer, and the engine starts. View of the Wright-designed water-cooled engine. View of Orville Wright. The famous first powered flight, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, with Orville Wright at controls. Animation shows that 120 foot flight juxtaposed against a B-36 wing. Wilbur Wright in Europe, in 1908, gesturing as he converses with interested parties. A gallery of spectators including the President of France, King of England, King of Spain, and King of Italy. Wilbur Wright places a wheel under the right wing of a Wright Flyer and lashes it to the strut. A team of horses pulls the plane across the field. Men maneuver the plane onto a monorail on the ground. Men pull on a heavy rope to raise a weight in a tower, for a catapult. Two men spin the propellers and the Wright Brothers airplane motor starts. Wilbur Wright and his passenger, a French journalist, board the plane. The catapult weight drops, launching the aircraft which flies low over the field. U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt speaking (He is seen on a podium campaigning for the Bull Moose Party nomination at the Kansas State Fair in Hutchinson, Kansas on September 22, 1912.) War department issues specifications for a heavier-than-air craft. Reenactment of a Wright brother signing a bid contract. A Wright Flyer airborne at Fort Myer, Virginia, as the Wrights meet the Army specifications and sell, U.S. Army airplane number 1, to the War Department, in 1908. Gold Aviator wings being pinned on the uniform of a U.S. Army pilot. Photograph of Army Air Forces Chief, General Henry (Hap) Arnold, wearing his original aviator wings on his service uniform. A Glenn Curtis training airplane starting up and taking off. View of a DH-4 airplane and a Wright Flyer taking off together.
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