Title:GENERAL EISENHOWER'S TOUR OF INSPECTION [Allocated Title]
Film Number:ACA 3
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Summary:
Description: General Eisenhower enters Dakota ('Betsy'), leaving HQ. He goes on an inspection tour of an airfield - Bostons and Mitchells in the background - visiting control towers, hangars etc. At another airfield, he repeats the routine. As the Dakota lands, a Miles Messenger 'plane is shown. Eisenhower gives a speech, is driven round the airfield, and talks with Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham, as well as the Commanding Officers of the two airfields. (The airfields shown are RAF Blackbushe and RAF Dunsfold.)
Production Details: Royal Air Force (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Coningham, Arthur (person)
Eisenhower, Dwight David (person)
Leigh-Mallory, Trafford (person)
Keywords: aircraft, British - light military: Miles Messenger (object name)
aircraft, United States - combat: Douglas Boston (object name)
aircraft, United States - combat: North American B-25 Mitchell (object name)
aircraft, United States - transport: Douglas C-47 Dakota (object name)
delegations, United States international - military: Eisenhower visits RAF stations (object name)
GB, England & Blackbushe, Hants <RAF Station, Hartford Bridge Flats> (geography)
GB, England & Dunsfold, Surrey <RAF Station> (geography)
