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...combat arms of Allied power, the Fourteenth Air Force alone stands within striking distance of the soft exposed vitals of the Japanese Empire. The recent arrival of a fleet of four-motored Liberator bombers enabled the Fourteenth Air Force last week to strike harder and deeper than ever before at those vitals...
...this year. Its operating lines already vein the world. Its freighter pilots fly along the Alaska highway, past Whitehorse to Fairbanks; its delivery flyers whip fighters and bombers close to Bering Strait to be turned over to Russia for the eastern front. Freighters, and bombers on the way to combat, cross central Canada to Greenland, Iceland, Britain. They blanket the Caribbean and sweep across Mexico. They fly down both sides of South America...
Lesson in Defeat. In the early days of the war the Air Ferrying Command grew spasmodically, constantly hamstrung by the demand for combat planes-and the 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...
Airlines' Flyers. Having drafted his executives, Hal George went after the airlines' practical know-how. Today U.S. airlines are flying under contract about 60% of ATC's overseas loads (Army pilots ferry all combat planes...
...Army will train about 100,000 airborne troops this year; one airborne division, the 82nd, is nearing combat pitch now. They are trained to fight alongside ground-bound outfits when gliders are not needed...