WWII instructions for flying military aircraft to Alaska

Scenes from a 1942 film made by the U.S. Army Air Forces Air Transport Command Overseas Technical Unit show the route for flying military aircraft from Montana to Alaska. At Fairbanks, the aircraft were transferred to Soviet pilots as part of the Lend-Lease program (BW/Sound/16mm film).
Through the Lend-Lease Act during WWII, the United States sent supplies and aircraft to its allies, including the Soviet Union. Beginning in Great Falls, Montana, Lend-Lease aircraft piloted by Americans flew through western Canada to Ladd Field in Fairbanks, Alaska. The aircraft were then transferred to Soviet pilots, who continued on to Nome, then Siberia, and finally to Moscow. The route, known as the Alaska-Siberia Route (ALSIB), totaled 7,900 miles.
According to the National Park Service in an article titled Ladd Field and the Lend-Lease Mission: Defending Alaska in WWII (Teaching with Historic Places), "[t]he first Lend-Lease planes flown between Great Falls and Fairbanks arrived on September 3, 1942. Five A-20 bombers made the first two-day flight. Every plane arrived with a white star on the fuselage (body of the plane). The Soviet pilots painted over the white star with the red star, the emblem of the Soviet Union, before leaving for the Soviet Union ... Wartime censorship meant that the ALSIB route and the Soviet soldiers stationed at Ladd Field were not publicly discussed until the summer of 1944. However, in towns along the way, the operation was common knowledge. The Soviet pilots stayed at Ladd Field until the end of WWII. In that time, the United States delivered almost 8,000 planes to the Soviet Union."
This is a clip from AAF-188 of the UAF General Moving Image collection held by the Alaska Film Archives, a unit of the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections & Archives Department in the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks.
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