Word: noncombatant
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...that since the transocean ferry service was started last year, at least 100 U.S. Army pilots have made the trip. In Great Britain, scores of U.S. Army fledglings are flying in their own school squadrons, learning all that World War II can teach them about combat piloting (nominally in "noncombat areas"). If some of Colonel Olds's ferrymen get similar experience in transatlantic bombery, nobody in The Army Air Forces will be surprised...
...officials do not forget that since last fall they have revised the schedules of monthly deliveries three times, and every revision has been downward-from hopes toward realities. Early last October they anticipated an April 1941 production of 2,068 planes (450 combat aircraft and 1,159 noncombat planes for the U.S. Army and Navy; 429 for the British) and June 1941 production...
Better sounding is the fact that plane production has actually doubled since last November. From last October till last week contracts had been placed for 44,836 combat and noncombat planes (16,000 of them for Britain and Canada). In addition plans have been made for 2,400 medium bombers and 1,200 heavy bombers, whose parts are to be manufactured by automakers and assembled in Government plants...