At left, Major Eldo A. Peterman stands on the wing of an airplane. He stands with his back to camera and faces right. The Major also wears his flying uniform, including a parachute which hangs down his back. To the right of him, Captain George C. Sherwood sits in the cockpit of the same plane. He smiles as he looks towards Major Peterman. The plane is viewed close-up and from its side; it faces towards the left. Along the side of the plane, the number 4 is painted as is a silhouetted image of the California bear. The plane appears to sit within a hangar; the pilots' shadows cast onto a ceiling visible in the distance.
Three men are at a dinner table, two of them seated and one standing up. From left to right: Harry Wetzel, Executive Vice President of Douglas Aircraft; H. H. Arnold, Assistant Chief of Army Air Corps; Walter P. Story, General at California National Guard.
"Army Defense Week" is incorrect on the negative sleeve. The committee was meeting for Army Day, not National Defense Week which took place earlier in February of that year.
Seated at the dining table, from left to right: Oscar Tuppett, H. E. Pickering, Harry Wetzel, Brigade General H. H. Story, Brigade General W. P. Story, and James Hanabery.