PLANES FOR NAVY
100 FIGHTERS A MONTH Delivery of fighting, scouting and bombing planes to the U.S.A. Navy will reach a rate of more than 100 a month early in 1941, according to an official statement in the Christian Science Monitor. That rate includes only conibattype planes for which formal contracts have been signed. Delivery dates, hitherto withheld as naval secrets, were disclosed in a Navy schedule inserted in the Congressional Record by Representative Carl Vinson (D) of Georgia, Chairman of the House Naval Committee. In the same table, the Navy disclosed that it had reached agreements, pending contracts, with manufacturers for 2617 additional fighting, scouting and bombing planes and 27.000 propellers. The propellers were intended for both Army and Navy use during the 1941 and 1942 fiscal years, and 70odd bombers among the planes also were for the Army. With the new agreements, the Navy had 3648 fighting, patrolling and bombing planes on order, plus luge numbers of training and other
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21244, 15 October 1940, Page 2
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