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...Ferrying Command has already established regular routes for cargo planes across every continent save Europe. The fleets of planes to fly these routes have still to be built. Luckily the bombers Ford is building at Willow Run are readily convertible to cargo ships...
...slide trombone." Last week his two egos were finally separated. In charge of shipbuilding for some time has been his alter ego, Rear Admiral Howard L. Vickery. Last week he got another deputy to handle ship operations. Lewis William Douglas was appointed to tackle the job of utilizing cargo space wisely & well...
While Navy subs bagged a 7,100-ton cruiser and two Jap cargo vessels, MacArthur's airmen reached far & wide for the Jap's shipping and air installations. The dingdong raiding across the wilds of New Guinea went on daily, with the Jap pounding at the U.S. airdromes at Port Moresby while American and Australian crews smashed the Jap's docks, sheds and ships at Salamaua...
...Distinguished Service Cross. Seventy officers and men of his submarine command were awarded Silver Stars. They got these awards for steering their submarine, loaded with a huge store of gold, silver and other Philippine treasure, from Corregidor through Jap-infested waters to a cruiser that transshipped the precious cargo to San Francisco. But in that prodigious, daring smuggling feat there was one unsung hero...
...tiptop for years. The reason was urgent need: Army air-freight and passenger traffic has priority on grounds of overwhelming volume alone. And more planes were needed to tote the load. Thus airline engineers and mechanics will soon start converting some 75 silver-sided transports into grim, olive-grey cargo planes. After the seats have been ripped out and husky floors and big doors or hatches installed, the ships will hop-skip all over the U.S. with ammunition, spare parts, engines, even big two-and-a-half-ton machine tools. All this will be done by the airlines...