CANADA TO INDIA
Rec. 2 p.m
RUGBY, Mar. 10
Airmen of the R.A.F. Transport Command recently took an American heavy bomber from Canada to India in just over two days, including stops totalling nearly 10 hours. It was a routine delivery of a new Liberator bomber. It took off from Montreal in 45 degrees of frost, with a full cargo of aircraft parts and radio equipment, and 49 hours 32 .minutes later, landed 8500 miles away at Karachi, where the tem--1 srature was 95 degrees.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 60, 11 March 1944, Page 5
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