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Even at sea, there was no active front: Admiral William F. Halsey's Third Fleet, with its British task force attached, had just finished a two-day pounding of northern Honshu with rockets, bombs and shells, and had withdrawn to the east, presumably to refuel...
...fast carrier task force of Admiral Halsey's Third Fleet had retired to refuel. There had been reports of an approaching typhoon; however, most of the Fleet's aerologists had charted it considerably farther east. Then the storm began to veer erratically toward the task force. We could see that we were in for a typhoon of savage ferocity...
...colors of the Gulf Stream and edges her way through the Panama Canal. While they loaf, they wonder. Their destination is still as dead a blank to them as their experience of combat. Then, well out in the Pacific, in some rough, wonderful shots, they meet a tanker and refuel, and know at least that their job is to be long and businesslike...
Under them, signers would permit 1) flying across their territory by any signatory, 2) landing only to refuel, repair, etc., 3) unloading passengers and freight taken on in the plane's home nation, 4) loading passengers and freight destined for the plane's home nation, 5) loading passengers and freight in one nation and carrying them to any other signatory...
What were Russia's real reasons? Best guesses: Russia has not been enthusiastic over "freedom of transit, i.e., the right of planes of any nation to fly over the territory of another and land to refuel, a doctrine which both the U.S. and Britain favor. More important, Russia was opposed, as is the U.S., to the British plan for an all-powerful international air commission. The British want such a commission to control international civil aviation by doling out routes, setting fares, eliminating "uneconomic competition," etc. Russia did not want to go along with these views even temporarily...