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...Ones. As Percy Nelles set off for London, Ottawa announced that the Royal Canadian Navy would soon have more than destroyers and escort vessels. Canadian crews were going to man two cruisers and two escort aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy...
...this was in preparation for the day when Britain (in return for more than a billion dollars in Lend-Lease) will send two cruisers and possibly two escort carriers to the Dominion's navy. Another of Percy Nelles' hopes had been fulfilled...
British naval officials made a surprising announcement: one-third of all British Fleet Air Arm flyers now train in the U.S., with U.S. planes and instructors. Many of them go to war, when training is done, aboard U.S.-built "baby flattop" escort carriers (see cut). Main reasons for U.S. training: 1) Britain's airfields are jammed by R.A.F. and U.S. flyers; 2) interchangeability of men and equipment will be valuable in future joint fleet operations against Japan...
Long Reach. But the new Mustang's greatest single contribution to the mounting air battle over Europe is its long range; it has whittled a healthy slice out of the danger zone in which daylight bombers must fly without fighter escort to hit distant enemy targets. The exact range is secret, but 1,000 miles might not be a bad layman's guess; on its showing last week, the Mustang might have enough range to fly escort to Berlin...
...Fighters escorted the bombers all the way in and back. The escort operated in waves: first, P-38 Lightnings, then P47 Thunderbolts. Finally, long-range P-51B Mustangs (see p. 61) came in for the final approach and run over the targets...