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...arguments for vast fleets of cargo planes and troop transports are unanswerable. The only questions are: How many? How soon? What types...
...Helpful was a small-plane courier-cargo service newly established by OCD's Civil Air Patrol, shuttling between factories and shipping points...
...combination of circumstances had prevented the building of an air-cargo system useful in war. U.S. commercial airlines had discouraged the development of freight planes by keeping their rates high; their real revenues flowed from passenger and mail traffic...
...Army had its own pigeon-sized air-cargo system. In 1941 it carted 4,000 tons of airplane parts to & from tactical fields and its depots. But in the U.S. long-range air freighting was an uncharted stratum, even after the Army established a ferry service to deliver combat planes abroad. As late as last autumn only a minuscule 4% of the Army's planes consisted of troop and cargo carriers. The Navy was tardier...
Last month the Air Transport Command was set up. It swallowed the Air Force Ferrying Command and the cargo division of the Air Services Command. Its commander is Brigadier General Harold L. George. The Army air-freight service had already begun, in a small way, to work wonders...