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...Transport planes have their definite limitations. Because high octane gas is scarce in China, freight planes have to carry with them a round trip supply, which necessarily cuts down on their pay load. Until Burma is recaptured, no real amount can be flown in," he revealed. "Once Burma is retaken, we will resume work on the railroad from Lashio north into China. This will take the place of the Burma road which had never been satisfactory...
...them for other military cargoes. The Japs have also converted whalers to be seaplane and landing-craft tenders, and they are now busily building a fleet of wooden junks, for coastal bay-hopping. Overland routes on the continent are beginning to relieve coastal shipping of part of its load. So far, Japan's shipping shortage is less acute than that of the Allies...
Laborers worked night & day on the stone and macadam highway along the coast. A railroad to Tobruk carried some of the load after engineers restored it. Ships edged along the shore. Rush orders had to be carried by giant transport planes. Supply trucks, given priority, frequently moved ahead of all but the very advanced troops. One story was told of a bakery unit dashing into Matrûh, where a German officer stepped forth and growled: "You arrived too soon...
...traveler (on specifications laid down by TWA before the war). Her Wright engines packed more than 8,000 h.p.-how much more the Army would not allow Lockheed to say. Her engineers had built her to span the continent in one hop of eight hours. With a full passenger load (52) she can outspeed a Zero. With any kind of load, she has an astonishing economy of operation: one gallon of fuel to the mile...
...Forces the utility of the Constellation is obvious: she will be the fastest, most efficient land-based freight hauler in existence, at a time when airmen direly need anything that will get a load over long distances...