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President Harry Truman’s airplane at Z. Smith Reynolds Airport

President Harry Truman's airplane at Z. Smith Reynolds Airport

United States President Harry Truman’s Air Force airplane on the tarmac at Z. Smith Reynolds Airport, with crowd of onlookers and welcoming committee. Truman was arriving for the Wake Forest College groundbreaking, 1951.

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  1. What was the name of Harry Truman’s airplane?

    1 | Patti Kihm Friday, February 8, 2008 10:42 pm

  2. Harry Truman had a presidential airplane called the Independence (possibly a reference to Truman’s hometown of Independence, MO), which was a modified C-118 Liftmaster. I’m not sure whether the airplane in the photograph is actually the Independence, though.

    2 | Megan Mulder, ZSR metadata librarian Monday, February 11, 2008 10:32 am

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created
10/15/1951
creator
Coppedge
description
United States President Harry Truman's Air Force airplane on the tarmac at Z. Smith Reynolds Airport, with crowd of onlookers and welcoming committee. Truman was arriving for the Wake Forest College groundbreaking, 1951.
hasFormat
Photoprint
hasVersion
275.CD
identifier
ewf/gb/ewf_gb_00169, ewf/gb/ewf_gb_00169-th
isPartOf
WFU Groundbreaking
isReferencedBy
ewf_gb_169
publisher
Z. Smith Reynolds Library
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rightsHolder
Wake Forest University
subject
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972, Digital Forsyth, Forsyth County (N.C.) -- History -- Sources, Forsyth County (N.C.) -- History -- Pictorial works
title
President Harry Truman's airplane at Z. Smith Reynolds Airport
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