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Slight, scarred Lieut. General George C. Kenney, who took over the Southwest Pacific air command in August, had the answer: send them by air. George Kenney scraped together every transport plane he could find, including old, outmoded B18 bombers, early version of four-motored Liberators left over from Java, Lockheed and Douglas planes made in the U.S. for the Indies' K.N.I.L.M. airlines. George Kenney then flew thousands of soldiers to New Guinea. It was the first big airborne troop-transport job undertaken by the U.S. in a theater of operations...
...Roosevelt he was pleased with the "fairness" of the people, said the registration for gas cards had turned out to be in line with OPA estimates. The first tabulated returns: X cards (unlimited), 9.6%; A cards (the most limited), 30.8%; B-3 cards (for business use), 37.3%. Remainder were B18...
...Fleigelmann of Brooklyn thought he had to do to make that trip was join the U. S. Army Air Corps and get assigned to Luke Field, Hawaii. In a high moment last November, Mechanic Fleigelmann decided to fly back 2,400 miles to San Francisco in a Douglas B18 bomber, which can fly 2,000 miles with a full load and the usual crew of six experienced men. Inasmuch as Private Fleigelmann was not even one experienced flier, he was lucky to crawl out of the wreckage in a pineapple patch five miles from Luke Field...
...successive nights and mornings, the Air Corps' Brig. General Arnold N. Krogstad sent Boeing B-17 ("Flying Fortress") and Douglas B18 bombers flying 180 miles southward from Langley Field, Va., to Fort Bragg. Ordered to fly at 4,000 feet the first night, to accustom the observers, bombers later went up to 18,000, 20,000 and 24,000 feet heights now practicable thanks to a new, secret bomb sight. Without fail, civilian groundlings heard or saw, got warnings to Fort Bragg within three minutes. On a headquarters defense map, lighted in red and green, winking bulbs "tracked...
...Sever 53 Thurs. at 10 Sever 84 Thurs. at 9 Sever 135 Wed. at 11 Sever 326 Thurs. at 10 Sever 78 Thurs. at 11 Sever 89 Wed. at 9 Sever 2110* Thurs. at 3-5 Widener B12a* Wed. at 10 Boylston 2315* Thurs. at 10 Widener B18 Wed. at 2 Sever B26a Wed. at 12 Sever 620a* Tues. at 3-5 Sever 620c* Wed. at 3-5 Sever 21GOVERNMENT1 Thurs. at 9 New Lect. Hall2hf* Consult Professor Holcombe3a Wed. at 10 Sever 184 Thurs. at 11 Harvard 66* Wed. at 2 Harvard 57a Wed. at 12 Sever 28a Thurs...