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...single flight. Proudly the A.A.F. pointed to its safety record: only three bombers had been lost; not one life had been lost in the A.T.C.'s transporting of 67,200 troops. Naval craft of three nations (U.S., Britain and Brazil) patrolled the three routes (via Iceland and Newfoundland; via the Azores; via Natal, Brazil, and the Caribbean). They were a chain of beacons, supplying weather data to the homing aircraft. Ashore, long range planes stood by for rescue missions...
...long time. One day in 1942 he had a 6 o'clock cocktail date with his wife. A few minutes before 6 he got a telephone summons from the Navy. Sullivan rushed off, learned that his assignment was to salvage the U.S.S. Wakefield, then burning off the Newfoundland coast. He flew to the ship, took her in to a beach he had picked out from the plane, later brought the Wakefield home. Mrs. Sullivan, whom he stood up that evening in New York, has seen him only three days since...
...present route to London, via Bermuda, through Europe and the Near East to Calcutta. American Export, which now flies to Foynes, Ireland, and Lisbon, was given two north Atlantic routes and will fly all the way to Moscow. T.W.A. was also given two routes, one via Newfoundland and Foynes to Bombay, the other via Lisbon and Rome to Cairo...
Died. Lindsay Crawford, 76, rough & tumble Irish editor, first Irish Free State consul in the U.S.; in Manhattan. President of the Self-Determination League of Ireland, Canada and Newfoundland, Protestant Irishman Crawford stumped so explosively for total Irish independence that he was once pelted with snow and ice by a Canadian crowd, once drowned out by an irate audience's bawling God Save the King...
...British Overseas Airways Corp. last week announced its first transatlantic passenger schedule. From Baltimore to Poole, England, 100 miles from London, via Newfoundland, B.O.A.C. will operate four flights weekly this summer, will carry civilian passengers if high priority holders do not grab all the available seats...