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...press conference, the President discussed postwar plans for air commerce. He was not alarmed by the fact that other nations would own the U.S.-built airports around the globe. He thought that nations should permit the airlines of other nations to stop and refuel on international flights...
...were spaced trimly over the aircraft carrier Hornet's flight deck. Off on either side steamed cruisers and destroyers. The next morning, Doolittle told them officially what the mission was, gave them choice of city: Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka, Kobe, Magoya. They were to land at small Chinese airfields, refuel and meet at Chungking. It would be single-file, hit-&-run, each crew on its own. "If we all get to Chungking, I'll throw the biggest goddamn party you ever...
...after the war. OWI argued sensibly that the more planes there are the more ships, trucks and railroad cars will be needed to fuel and supply them. According to Civil Aeronautics Administrator Charles I. Stanton, more than two 10,000-ton tanker loads of gasoline would be needed to refuel enough Clipper trips from New York to England to carry the cargo that one 10,000-ton freighter could take across in a single voyage...
...into his U-boat campaign. South Africa reported huge German craft clustered thickly around Portuguese Lourengo Marques, sinking Allied ships with a frequency that shook South African morale. From Stockholm came a German writer's story of a new wrinkle: submersible barges towed by cargo-carrying subs to refuel and supply U-boats far from home...
Principal objective of any Japanese attack would be the city of Kunming, at the top of the Burma Road. There U.S. ferry planes from General Elmer Edward Adler's India-based Army Air Forces refuel. The closing of the Burma Road itself had clamped a terrible constriction on China's thin lines of supply. Japa nese occupation of Yunnan would draw the cord tighter, could even throttle China...