| AMERICAN AID FOR THE ALLIES General Pershing, Henry Ford and FDR All Back Sending Supplies to the Democracies | ||
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| Tape Master: | 6419 | |
| Catalog #: | 190057 | |
| Clip Number: | 190057-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 40/50 | |
| Timecode: | 01:33:59 - 01:36:35 | |
| Location: | United States of America | |
| Year Shot: | 1940 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: Foreign Aid, Military Support LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA PERSONALITIES: Ford, Henry PERSONALITIES: Pershing, John J. PERSONALITIES: Roosevelt, Franklin D. (FDR) TRANSPORTATION/AVIATION: Military WORLD WAR TWO, GENERAL: Speeches WORLD WAR TWO, HOMEFRONT: War Work | |
| Description: | AMERICAN AID FOR THE ALLIES General Pershing, Henry Ford and FDR All Back Sending Supplies to the Democracies United States of America (USA) MS CU of General John Pershing sitting at his desk speaking. He says, "The Allies are fighting a war for a civilization. They are holding our front line and we have a vital concern in the outcome. We should send not only food, clothing and medical supplies but also arrange to send airplanes, artillery, small arms and ammunition in unlimited quantities." VS at the Curtis-Wright factory in Buffalo of biplane fighter bombers designed for use by the navy being painted and finished prior to their dispatch for England. VS including good CUs of Henry Ford inspecting fighter aircraft outside his Michigan factory, he is trying to find the design that he could mass produce in his factories. Shots of the fighter being pushed back into the hanger. MS. American President Franklin D Roosevelt speaking in Charlottesville, Virginia: "On this tenth day of June Nineteen Hundred and Forty, the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor (Italy's entry into the war). Edit. Overwhelmingly, we as a nation, this applies to all the other American Nations, we are convinced that military and naval victory for the gods of force and hate would endanger the institutions of democracy in the Western World and that equally, therefore, the whole of our sympathies lie with the nations that are giving their life blood in combat against those forces." Applause. | |
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