Bomber aircraft production by the Ford Motor Company in the United States at the Willow Run plant between Ypsilanti and Belleville Michigan. Henry Ford and Edsel Ford sitting on a wall, conversing. A building under construction in the background. A sign on the building reads: 'United States National Defense Willow Run Airplane Plant, Dedicated June 16, 1941. Designed and erected for Bomber Production by Ford Motor Company, Henry Ford Founder-Edsel Ford President'. A United States Army Air Force B-24 Liberator bomber flying over a field. A group of workers posing outside the plant with a new bomber. The group includes Henry Ford II and Army Officers. Henry Ford II signing his name on the side of the last bomber built at Willow Run Several other people signing. Women workers signing. A crowd around the bomber. Aerial views of the plant.
A film dramatizes the use of safety instruction in coal mines in the United States. The Tippleville coal mine. Houses along the sides of a street. People walking on a street. Women standing near the entrance to a mine. After sometime, ten men wearing masks arrive. Miners working in the mine. 'Don't shut this door' written on a door. Men working and gathering material to construct a wall. A pipe is built into the wall so that they could test the air outside. Men working after the wall has been constructed.
U.S. 101st Airborne Division in Holland during World War II. Soldiers aboard a jeep moving across a field. Other soldiers walking along the field with gliders aground in the background. United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator aircraft in flight overhead. Supplies are dropped from the aircraft. Jeeps loaded with U.S. Army soldiers move along a road past cheering civilians. A woman waves a large American flag, greeting the troops. (This is possibly the town of 't Zand.)
U.S. 325th Infantry Airborne Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division in Holland during World War II. Airplanes in flight overhead. Several paratroopers are dropped onto a field. The paratroopers descend. Medics place a litter with a patient in a jeep. U.S. Army Air Force C-47 Skytrains pass overhead towing gliders which are released and glide to the field. The paratroopers with free field packs walk away from the gliders. A glider with partially damaged tail and a window. An injured paratrooper is treated by the medics.
U.S. Army Air Forces C-47s towing gliders over Holland during World War II. Gliders are seen maneuvering after being released from the C-47 tow planes. A glider coasts down a field and makes a successful landing. Trees in the background. Supplies are dropped by parachutes. U.S. troops occupy the field. A CG-4A glider makes a landing in a field where other gliders are already parked. A damaged glider makes a safe landing past other gliders, then brakes hard as approaches the end of the landing area.
U.S. Congressmen visit the 12th Army Group Tactical Air Command headquarters in Luxembourg during World War II. Opening scene shows the Congressmen of the House Military Affairs Committee, seated around a luncheon table with U.S. Army officers. The luncheon is hosted by Lieutenant General Omar Bradley, who converses with Committee members at the head table. Among those seated at other parts of the table is Republican Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce of Connecticut. She sits between two Army officers, and across from Republican Congressman Paul W. Shafer of Michigan. Closer to the camera, a field grade woman army officer is seen among the military guests. This sequence captures the end of the luncheon, when guests are having coffee. Several guests smoke cigarettes, including Clare Boothe Luce. Closeup of General Bradley, conversing.
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