Description printed on photograph's accompanying strip of paper: "Next stop-- Moscow! Le Bourget, France---- After making minor repairs, Howard Hughes and his companions took off from Le Bourget, to complete their record-smashing circuit of the globe in 3 days and 19 hours. The photo shows the Hughes plane, 'World's Fair, 1939,' propellers whirling, just before the takeoff for Moscow, second leg of the world flight."
Description printed on photograph's accompanying strip of paper: "Howard Hughes' plane heavily guarded leaves hangar at Le Bourget Field, Paris, for the hop to Moscow."
Description given with photo: "Says Brewster Is "Greatest Trick Shot Artist In D.C. - Washington, D.C., Partially deaf, plane-builder Howard Hughes, above shown using a special hearing aid provided by the Senate War Investigating Committee now probing his war aircraft contracts. Hughes today fired a new volley of accusations at Chairman Brewster, ( R ) of Maine, calling toe Maine Senator the "greatest trick shot artist in Washington." The verbal volley was directed at Brewster's blanket denial that he offered to quash investigation of Hughes' war plane contracts if Hughes would merge his Trans-World Airlines with Pan-American Airways. -INP photo by N.K. Benson. 8/7/47."
Transcribed from press release attached to photo: "HUGHES READY FOR TAKE-OFF IN SECOND XF-11 FLIGHT. CULVER CITY, Calif., April 5 -- Howard Hughes, famed flier-industrialist, recovered from injuries following crash last July 7, is shown here just before he test-piloted today a duplicate of the plane in which he nearly lost his life. He designed and built the plane, designated XF-11, and one of the world's fastest photo-reconnaissance ships, for the Army Air Forces in conjunction with the Air Materiel Command engineers.