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...secret airport in India, a flight of pot-bellied new U.S. air freighters settled on the runways, waddled up to the parking line, disgorged their cargo through yawning doors in their fuselages. As American airmen watched this sight last week, they caught a glimpse of a bright postwar world...
...general confusion. What air transport there was in battle zones was done largely by combat pilots in war craft, which were loaded to the last limit of safety. Not until July 1942, when the Air Ferrying Command became Air Transport Command, was there an organized effort to fly cargo regularly over established routes...
Transport's Planes. Air Transport Command is still sadly short of the planes it needs. Beyond the old reliable DC-3, it must largely rely on Liberator bombers, converted to cargo craft and thus long on power and short on freight space. But planes are on the way. Douglas, besides turning out the veteran DC-35, is also producing the C-54, a four-engined mon ster with a payload of ten tons. Curtiss is turning out the powerful two-engined Commando ("Dumbo" to airmen) which made the mass flight to India...
...Army will not be completely equipped until late in 1944-despite the "truly remarkable job American business and industry have done in 17 months." Essential cargo for the available shipping is still difficult to supply. On many occasions equipment has been withdrawn from troops in training to supply troops overseas. Rumors that the army is so flooded with equipment that plants have had to shut down are fifth-column rumors designed to slow production. Some cutbacks in schedules have occurred. But only in one field, ammunition, is there a reserve...
Waterways, Airways, Trucks. Only six months ago, barges lay idle on most of the nation's rivers and canals. Now only the southbound movement of freight on the Ohio and Mississippi is not at near-capacity levels. No. 1 war cargo on the waterways is oil; No. 2, coal. Busiest U.S. barge canal is the Gulf Intra-Coastal (Corpus Christi, Tex. to Carabelle...