NAVAL WAR GAME
AMERICA IN PACIFIC
THE AIRCRAFT FACTOR
GREAT MASSED FLIGHT
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, May 8. Aircraft became a major factor in America's peace-time war games, in the Pacific today with the disclosure that 42 fighting aeroplanes will attempt the greatest mass flight in history as part of the naval manoeuvres. The flight will involve 200 officers and enlisted men. The armada is scheduled to take off at 6 a.m. tomorrow for the 1200-mile hop to Midway Island, where it will join a section of the fleet engaged in the manoeuvres in neighbouring waters. It is learned that Admiral Reeves ordered the flights of all aeroplanes to be kept secret The same secrecy cloaked the movements of all units of the fleet which steamed into the Pacific from United States harbours and Pearl Harbour naval base.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 109, 10 May 1935, Page 7
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141NAVAL WAR GAME Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 109, 10 May 1935, Page 7
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