FIGHTING PLANES
FFENOH NEGOTIATIONS LARGE ORDER TO AMERICA (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) NEW YORK Jan. 26 The New York Dally News correspondent at Washington says it is confirmed that France is negotiating for the largest order of fighting aeroplanes ever placed in the United States by a foreign Power, estimated at between 400 and 600 machines. It is understood the American Government is especially facilitating the order, which is being arranged by a Frenoh air mission, one member of which. Incidentally, was seriously injured when an ultra-modern light Douglas bomber in which he was observer during an experimental flight crashed at Los Angeles, killing the American pilot.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20715, 27 January 1939, Page 8
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