Workers working at an Indianapolis plant where Allison liquid-cooled motors are being fabricated and tested for aircraft engines in World War 2. View of a rotating fan with the help of a motor.
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.
First class of Air cadets who were taught by Southwest Airways under private contract with the U.S. Army during World War 2. They are seen in classroom, receiving instruction. Next scene shows them marching in front of a hangar at Thunderbird Field. They stand in a formation and then Air cadets receive their diplomas and shake hands with U.S. Army Air Force officers. Final scene shows cadets taxiing their Stearman PT-17 aircraft out sequentially from the flight line.
U.S. Army Air Cadets arriving at Randolph Field in Texas, after primary training. New cadets in hooded Link trainers are taught by way of blind flying. Cadets learning difficult air maneuvers. Aircraft BT-14s in flight and taxiing. BT-14s in flight. (World War 2 era.)
Views of conveyor system in use at Bell Aircraft Plant, Niagara Falls. War production workers inspecting and working with aircraft moving on belt. Bell P-39 Airacobra taking off. Views of Bell P-39 Airacobra in flight. (World War 2 era war production effort.)
Shows mechanical assembly line at Vultee Plant for production of warplanes in World War 2. Views of workers working at the Plant. Aircraft parts are conveyed through sites at which operations are performed in mechanized assembly line.
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