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Regarding your Sept. 11 article on Bob Prescott and his Flying Tiger Line, wherein you state he painted one of his C-47s like a totem pole and flew a "fanciful" Texan and eight friends to Vancouver, B.C. for a weekend...
...wonderful and thrilling, too, to ride the pipeline into Korea. The EUR-545, the C-46s and 47s stream into the airports of Japan, laden with everything from battlewise noncoms to dismantled artillery...
...Balance Your Budget." Today the memories of the struggle dissolve into melancholy. In the fifth month of the post-blockade "peace," Berlin is a city deserted by power, prosperity and purpose. At Tempelhof airport, where 15 big airlift transports landed every hour night & day, a few senile C-47s snooze in the autumn sunlight. On the grass between the runways, once jammed with quartermaster trucks and mobile canteens for hungry flyers, there sit stacks...
...last month the city heard that the well might soon run dry. The Air Force had decided that the Pacific Northwest might be vulnerable to bombing in event of war with Russia, and had specified that the new B-47s must be built at Boeing's branch plant in Wichita, Kans...
Meanwhile, an airlift was organized to fly supplies from the capital to the disaster zone. A Shell Oil Co. plane crashed near Ambato killing 34 rescuers. From the Canal Zone, U.S. C-47s flew in medical supplies and a Red Cross team. "We have not lost our courage," said Galo Plaza. "Neither Ambato nor Ecuador shall cry any more, but begin to work." Ambato, he said, would be rebuilt as a modern, quakeproof city...