AIR TRANSPORT
AMERICA TO AUSTRALIA MEN AND MUNITIONS FOR PACIFIC WAR (Rec. 8 p.m.) NEW YORK, J-n. 9. Hundreds of officers, as well as tons of mail and special high priority cargo, are being flown across the Pacific to Australia. Mr Raymond Clapper, columnist of the newspaper World Telegram, in a message from Australia, says: “ Our navy freight plane landed here after covering 9500 miles in three days and three nights flying from Washington. There are several navy planes flying each way every day, plus several for the army. The navy’s air transport system has not lost a single plane in this operation, and only one has been forced down. This is the backbone of our communications system in the war in the Pacific, giving speed and flexibility where they are needed.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25429, 10 January 1944, Page 3
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132AIR TRANSPORT Otago Daily Times, Issue 25429, 10 January 1944, Page 3
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