Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last summer, after frantic efforts, the Nazis had lifted their fighter-plane production to an estimated 1,200 ships a month. Then the Allies opened their methodical campaign against aircraft factories, assembly plants, repair depots. Last week Allied authorities reckoned that the Germans were getting only 25% of the new fighters expected by March...
A.S.C. takes every Air Forces plane as it leaves the factory, from then on keeps it in fuel, ammunition and repair. A.S.C. depots make any needed plane modifications which would otherwise slow up a factory production line, fit out every plane for flight or shipment overseas. A.S.C. also acts as an express company for all air freight in the U.S. flown by the Air Transport Command. It even publishes an illustrated catalogue of surplus or obsolete items (TIME...
Fast-stepping General Arnold's order, which had General George Marshall's approval, eliminated all service branch distinctions within the A.A.F. Said the order happily: "[Now] you are all members of this team whether you pilot the planes, repair the guns, build the airfields, maintain the radios, drive the trucks, handle the supplies or care for the sick and wounded." Members of the team will have "but one loyalty, one purpose, one distinguishing insigne...
...score planes, he now has a few-a very few-hundreds. His force includes four-engined, long-range B-24 bombers, P-38 fighters. By the standards of more prosperous theaters, its facilities are few and primitive. But major bases have been leveled, graded and embellished with revetments and repair shops-in view of supply difficulties, a miraculous achievement. Personnel is well housed, clothed, fed. No longer does Chennault himself operate from mud-and-bamboo headquarters, but from a spic-&-span, map-covered, easy-chaired, well-carpeted office in the heart of a new compound...
Airdrome runways are built by coolie-hand. At the main base three Americans direct thousands of Chinese laborers in the constant process of reconstruction and repair. Asphalt and concrete runways are practically unknown; most of the strips are paved with mud, hand-poured and bound with crushed rock. On a very few fields the Fourteenth has strips of the Chinese version of asphalt, made of tung oil, resin, sand and hand-chipped rock...