GREATEST FLEET OF TRANSPORT PLANES
(Rec. 1.30.) OKINAWA. Aug. 22 The greatest fleet of four-engined Skymaster transport ’planes assembled on one field spread over two square miles of Kadena aerodrome as the Army Transport Command concentrated airliners from all over the world for an unannounced mission—presumably for carrying Allied occupation troops to Japan. Scores of big silver aircraft are parked double in stands along the service aprons and runways where General Doolittle’s Superfortresses were to be based for aerial offensive operations. Each incoming ’plane brought not only its own five-man crew, but another crew and a-half as spares, also five ground-force personnel. There was a sudden concentration of 2600 fliers, 1000 mechanics and 150 or more administrative men to be fed, sheltered and supplied. All the Air Transport Command ’planes are returning to tlieir proper stations and resuming world service as soon as the mission is completed.
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Northern Advocate, 23 August 1945, Page 5
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