Word: transport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vacuum. Meanwhile, Britain and Canada already have firm air policies in print. Britain's was brief, Canada's detailed and carefully designed to distinguish Canada's special interest from the Empire's (see p. 24). But they both called for tight International Air Transport Authority to license all world air routes and carriers and, as Britain put it, "eliminate uneconomic competition...
Minister Howe announced that Canada will immediately start production of a four-motor transport plane "that is considered probably the best plane of the next five years...
...Pirates. First glider pilot to land was handsome Flight Officer Jackie ("The Kid") Coogan, first husband of blond Pin-Up Girl Betty Grable (her second: Jive Bandsman Harry James). Said Flight Officer Coogan: "I sure feel confident riding with Indian troops as passengers." One of Cochran's transport pilots: Lieut. John ("Buddy") Lewis, lanky, hard-hitting third baseman for the Washington Senators...
...graders. The landings were not without accident: the commanding engineer officer was killed, other gliders crashed, some passengers came to earth surrounded by Japs and had to fight their way to the main body. But within 24 hours, heroic toil had finished the first landing strip. Then came the transport planes. It was eight days before the surprised Japs even sent a plane to see what was happening. Royal Air Force Spitfires quickly chased it away...
Said the Sergeant: In the Sicilian campaign last July U.S. guns shot down some 20 U.S. transport planes by mistake...