Aircraft and Gliders at Ford Airport / Eddie Rickenbacker at Willow Run Plant / Tank Testing, Allied Officers / Willow Run: B-24 Liberator Bomber Manufacturing Part 2
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The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Views of plane landing at Ford Airport, other aircraft on ground - view inside Willow Run plant - aircraft towing glider taking off - views of aircraft and glider airborne. [1943] b. Men in open sightseeing train - Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, Henry Ford, Edsel Ford and others inside Willow Run plant - Rickenbacker climbing up platform beside B-24 Liberator bomber and writing his name on fuselage - posing - Rickenbacker posing with workers - workers waving hats and throwing them on ground - Rickenbacker, Henry Ford, and others in train touring plant. Henry Ford, Rickenbacker, Edsel Ford and other man posing - Rickenbacker with workers - in train. [1943] c. Procession of cars on dirt road, stopping - lead car flying Lieutenant General’s flag from fender - Henry Ford and military officers getting out of cars - United States, English and Russian officers and civilians walking across field, jeeps parked in background - men including Charles Sorensen, and Ford looking at Ford built tank engine on display - Ford and others climbing to reviewing platform, Sorensen and others already on platform - Sergeant opening door of aircraft, Lieutenant General insignia on fuselage - Lieutenant General H.H. Arnold and American, English, and Russian officers deplaning and being greeted by Sorensen, August 17, 1942. Group beside aircraft - posing and talking - group walking away from aircraft - officers and civilians looking at Ford built M-8 armored car - Charles A. Lindbergh and officer standing on platform - armored car moving along muddy road - Ford getting into car, Lindbergh and others in background, tank in background - Arnold, Lindbergh and other walking across field - procession of cars leaving test area - Arnold, Ford, Sorensen, and other talking on platform and looking at Ford built M-4 Sherman tank - tanks moving on muddy field - group on platform - officer and man in jeep, getting out - M-4 tanks in field. [1942] d. Women at tables in plant assembling hydraulic tubes - women painting tubes. Hydraulic Press. Views of workers operating hydraulic presses -workers riveting plating on side of B-24 aircraft. [1943]
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