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President Harry Truman’s arrival

President Harry Truman's arrival

United States President Harry Truman’s Air Force plane 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. President Truman’s Plane was a DC-6 (Douglass), not a Lockheed C-121. Something is wrong; either the picture, or words.

    1 | Delos Mlady Friday, January 13, 2023 2:04 pm

  2. Sorry. I am no longer connected with this site, but no one else knows this, so I will reply. On the morning that President Truman flew to Winston-Salem, his normal airplane had an engine problem, so he flew in the Lockheed instead. All the info in the post is correct.

    2 | fam brownlee Sunday, January 22, 2023 1:20 am

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title
President Harry Truman's arrival
creator
Coppedge
description
United States President Harry Truman's Air Force plane 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.
created
10/15/1951
publisher
Z. Smith Reynolds Library
rights
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rightsHolder
Wake Forest University
hasFormat
Photoprint
hasVersion
082.cd
isPartOf
WFU Groundbreaking
subject
Forsyth County (N.C.) -- History -- Pictorial works, Forsyth County (N.C.) -- History -- Sources, Digital Forsyth, Z. Smith Reynolds Airport (Winston-Salem, NC)
isReferencedBy
ewf_001_120
identifier
https://www.digitalforsyth.org/jpg/ewf/001/ewf_001_00120-th.jpg, https://www.digitalforsyth.org/jpg/ewf/001/ewf_001_00120.jpg, https://hdl.handle.net/10339/7347
issued
1951-10-15
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