Word: transports
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Pan American Airways' Atlantic Clipper crashed at Lisbon last February, killing 24 people, one of the brightest reputations in transport aviation crashed with it. Last week the crash report of the Civil Aeronautics Board marked "official" what airmen already knew: the Atlantic's chief pilot, 50-year-old Captain R.O. D. Sullivan, was responsible for the crash...
...Successful" was the Navy's description of the raid. Said the Navy: hits were made on ground installations and three cargo ships; a transport was left afire and sinking, another was damaged. But if Tokyo's report that 18 bombers participated-was correct-the U.S. had paid a high percentage for success. The Navy admitted that four bombers were lost due to enemy action, that six others, "failed to return...
...London Major General Harold L. George, boss of the Army's Air Transport Command, gave an interview. America, the General said, was just lucky that Japan, like the U.S., had never organized an independent air force. He added...
...Though this "entirely different philosophy of life" even went so far that some Britons suggested to him that the two nations should merge their air-transport systems after the war (Johnston squashed them with "we want our airlines privately owned"), he still thought the U.S. and Britain should make their "similar economies" compatible before tackling any deals with Russia...
Japan's survival in the Pacific depends on her merchant fleet, which must bring back Jap loot from Asia and the East Indies, transport Jap supplies to extended island bases. In one of his most optimistic moods, ebullient Navy Secretary Frank Knox last week told the U.S. public that one-third of Japan's precious cargo shipping had been sunk...