Eddie Rickenbacker returns home

Clip: 486642_1_1

Year Shot: 1942 (Actual Year)

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Video: B/W

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Location: Washington DC

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"News of the Day" feature on the stateside return of Eddie Rickenbacker after surviving three weeks in a lifeboat at sea. Rickenbacker was America's leading fighter ace of World War One with 26 confirmed kills; he later became president of Eastern Airlines. Washington DC Shots of Eddie with his wife and family, as well as General Henry H. Arnold. Then a film clip from Rickenbacker's impassioned plea for U.S. workers to do their jobs in support of the war effort, because any sacrifice they could ever hope to make would not equal the "hellhole of war."