AMERICAN PLANES
. ARRANGEMENTS FOR MASS PRODUCTION | IN CONJUNCTION WITH BRITAIN. PARACHUTE BATTALION FORMED. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.40 a.m.) WASHINGTON, October 3. The Secretary for the Navy (Colonel Knox) announced that the United States was undertaking, with British acquiescence, the mass production of aeroplanes and other essential war materials by the standardisation of specifications for production simultaneously for the United States and Britain. The Secretary for War (Mr Stimson) announced that the first American parachute battalion of 500 men was being formed at Fort Benning.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 October 1940, Page 6
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