. >>> my friend and colleague nadia bilchik joins me with this morning's "passport." and explores all over the world. where are we going today? >> from exotic places, we're going to seymour, indiana. >> indeed, a wonderful state. >> quite a remarkable story because in around the mid-1940s, post world war ii, what happened was americans brought german aircraft -- they shipped them to america to the freeman field, which was an air base at the time to study the aircraft because the germans were so much more advanced when it came to aeronautical engineering so they literally took these aircraft and you're looking at the base in around the 1940s and they literally what they did was they did reverse engineering was they took the planes and they dismantled them to see how they were built for study purposes and you're looking at an exhibition that took place in 1946 at what was then the freeman field air base. >> so why indiana? >> why indiana, because that's where the freeman field base was. but what happened after that was some of the large planes were on display but all of