Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This week the War Department announced that 498 men had been lost in the sinking, by enemy action, of a U.S. transport in the Mediterranean...
...under present rules WASPs can qualify for transport training with 35 hours flying time while men must have 1,000, including 200 in heavier aircraft before getting into transport service. In their training duties, hardly any of the men have had a chance to fly the heavier planes...
...week's end, the controversy still raged. At Orlando the WASPs were quietly planning for the reception of additional contingents every month until all of them have been trained. Even if they are never commissioned, the Air Forces argued that the training would do them good as transport flyers...
Married. Gloria Baker Topping, 24, café-society glamor girl of 1937, Bromo-Seltzer heiress ($10.000.000); and Brigadier General Edward Harrison Alexander, 42, commander of the Caribbean wing of the Air Transport Command; she for the second time, he for the first; at Mor rison Field, West Palm Beach. Her marriage to Henry J. Topping Jr., tin-plate heir ($9,000,000), who is now a naval lieutenant overseas, ended in divorce last year...
...four-motored Liberator transport of Consairway (Consolidated Vultee's air-transport division) flew from the U.S. to Australia & back in 3 days 22 hr. 10 min., clipping an hour from the previous record. Flight time two years ago: nine days...