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Every lesson of the war, said Doolittle, had demonstrated the primary importance of air power. "The Navy had the transport to make the invasion of Japan possible; the ground forces had the power to make it successful; and the B6-29s made it unnecessary." Alabama's Senator Hill was so struck by this statement that he had Doolittle repeat...
...spring there would be daily scheduled flights from India and Burma to Chungking and beyond, but now they could follow a more southerly course over the "low-Hump," by way of Myit-kyina. By year's end, Air Forces personnel in the India-China Division of the Air Transport Command will be down to around 9,000, from a peak of 35,000 (including 4,712 pilots...
Unofficial estimates were that 3,000 Allied transport and tactical aircraft had been lost among those jagged peaks. But for this price, the U.S. had backed China (and U.S. units in China) with invaluable aid: 78.000 tons went over the Hump in the peak month of July...
When American Airlines' fast-growing predecessor, American Airways, swallowed T.A.T.'s successor, Southern Air Transport, in 1929, Hardin became American Airways chief pilot and general manager. Nine years later, a member and later chairman of the Air Safety Board of the Civil Aeronautics Authority, he helped write the safety regulations that made U.S. commercial aviation the safest in the world. Later, for the Defense Supplies Corp. he helped purge Latin American aviation companies of Nazi control, then joined the Air Corps as a lieutenant colonel...
...Departments and the CAB,* is the first study of its kind. Its basic assumption: aircraft production over the next few years will be twice that of 1940 but less than 5% of the planes built in 1944. Spokesman Baker said that the industry would make between 325 and 475 transport planes a year, and 20,000 to 45,000 small planes for private flyers. From these two sources, the industry would get a maximum gross of $295,000,000 annually. But, butted Dr. Baker: this was nowhere near enough. To keep the military aircraft potential from rusting away, the Government...