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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?

  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.

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