Portrait of North Las Vegas Mayor Earl Hartke (right) meeting with U.S. Senator from Nevada Howard Cannon (center) and an unidentified woman in Washington, D.C.
Description given with photo: "Surprise To Everyone - San Pedro, Calif. : Millionaire planemaker Howard Hughes is surrounded by members of the press after successfully taking his 200-ton flying boat into the air in a surprise flight during initial taxi tests in Los Angeles harbor. Credit (ACME) 11/5/47."
Standing from left to right are John D. Home (Department of Communications of the American Legion), Howard Hughes (Managing Director of Production of RKO), and Edward Underwood (Department of Communications of Hollywood American Legion Motion Picture Post #43), in the late 1950s.
From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192). Original photograph taken on October 29, 1944 after they escaped following getting shot down in the Netherlands: photographic print