U.S.A. AIRCRAFT SALES

Grey River Argus, 9 October 1941, Page 5

U.S.A. AIRCRAFT SALES

284 Million Dollars FOR BRITISH FORCES' IN SEVEN MONTHS'. . (Rec. 7.10) WASHINGTON, Oct. 7. The Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce has announced that in the first seven months of 1941, the United. States delivered to British forces throughout the world aircraft and equipment valued at over 284 million dollars, the bulk of which was paid for in ca'sh, with a small proportion under the Lend and Lease Act. The Chamber said- it was unable to give the figures, but the United States had sent Britain nearly twice as many combat planes as the British, lost, in defending the British Isles during the entire year of 1940; and that for every trainer plane sent to Britain, three combat planes were delivered. It said that hundreds of combat planes were sent to England, Africa and Singapore, and many werp sent to China and to Batavia at the request of the British. It also staled there usually were several hundred planes’ awaiting shipment, and deliveries were steadily increasing.