[IN THE SERVICE OF AMERICA. PART II] Part 1

Description

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Crane lowering Liberty engine onto holder - WWI tank in field - people buying newspapers at newsstand - different headlines: ‘Allies Smash Back Along Somme,’ ‘Germans Retreat Across Marne,’ ‘French, Yanks Attack at Argonne,’ ‘Kaiser Abdicates,’ ‘Germany Surrenders’ - celebration in street - view of River Rouge plant - inside River Rouge plant - pictures of different cars; 1923 Ford, 1927 Ford, 1929 Ford, 1932 Ford V-8, 1942 Ford - Ford Tri-Motor airplane taxiing - Tri-Motor construction - Tri-Motor in flight - 1942 Ford station wagon on street - 1942 Mercury on street - 1942 Lincoln Zephyr, Lincoln Continental, Lincoln Custom - several different Ford trucks - tractor in field - swastika over map of Europe - headlines: ‘Hitler Enters Czechoslovakia,’ ‘Poland Invaded,’ ‘Belgian King Surrenders,’ ‘Allies Flee Dunkirk,’ ‘Paris Falls,’ ‘London Bombed,’ ‘U.S. Drafts Defense Army,’ ‘German Troops Invade Russia’ - map of Pacific with Japanese flag - headline: ‘Japs Attack Pearl Harbor’ - announcer broadcasting over ABC Blue Network - different people listening to news of Pearl Harbor bombing - view of River Rouge plant - long line of jeeps moving down road - jeep being tested in hilly country - M-4 [Sherman] tank being tested in field - M-10 tank destroyer being tested - amphibian jeeps entering water - trucks parked in depot - M-8 armored car moving through woods - CG-4A gliders taking off, in flight - close-up of supercharger - bomber engine starting - views inside B-24 Liberator airplane engine construction plant, workers, Pratt & Whitney R-2800 engines being assemble - men in Ford Aircraft School learning to assemble engines - engine being tested. [1944]

Collection

Ford Motor Company Collection

Series

Motion Picture Films Relating to the Ford Motor Company, the Henry Ford Family, Noted Personalities, Industry, and Numerous Americana and Other Subjects