A view of Howard Hughes (left), California Governor Frank Merriam (center, front), and Will Hays (center, back) at a banquet held for Howard Hughes in the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California.
Description given with photo: "Hercules Wing Squeezes Through Town Redondo Beach, Calif. - School children throng to watch the 34-ton wing section of Howard Hughes' Hercules, world's largest flying boat, as it is cautiously engineered on house-moving dollies through Redondo Beach, Calif., on the way to specially built $200,000 dock at Terminal Island, Calif. Creditline (ACME). 6/13/46."
From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192). Howard Cannon, Alan Bible, United States Air Force Major H. J. Stewart, United States Navy Captain C. W. Smith, United States Navy Captain W. W. Schweer, and United States Marine Corps Colonel F. R. Wilkinson (individuals' places are unidentified).