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...ready Air Forces, available to defend the U.S. homeland and to make a retaliatory attack, are six heavy bombardment groups and twelve fighter groups. None of them are at V-J day efficiency. The commanders who could once send 820 B-29s rumbling over Japan on a single strike, last month were able to muster only 101 for a practice raid over Manhattan. From a V-J day peak of 85,000 planes, the Air Forces are now down to 9,000 first-line aircraft, and 2,000 to 3,000 of them will pass over to reserve status each...
...biggest boom is in military construction. Across Bering Strait, Russia, from which the U.S. bought Alaska for $7,200,000 in 1867, is only 52 miles away. Arctic and Pacific defense looms large in U.S. military thinking, and Alaska looms large in both. As Alaska-based B-29s, with lipstick-red wings and tails (easily seen in case of forced landings on the polar icecap), fly routine missions over the North Pole, the Army & Navy are pumping men and millions of dollars into the Territory. At Mile 26 on the Richardson Highway near Fairbanks, the Army is rushing construction...
...miles back to Gander. T.W.A. and other operators ordered their Constellations to keep below 12,000 feet (where the cabin need not be pressurized) until astrodomes could be made safer and navigators supplied with safety harnesses. That was just about what the Army had done in its B-29s...
...long flights over the desolate Arctic, the Army's big Alaska-based B-29s were writing a new textbook on polar flying. Last week they scribbled a new chapter in a hurry...
...Boeing Aircraft Co., as Canadair's new president. Unlike Hopkins, President West is no newcomer to Canada (he helped organize Trans-Canada Air Lines in 1937) or to plane making (he is credited with bossing Boeing production of half the B-17s and 70% of all the B-29s made for the U.S. during...