At a secret airport in India, a flight of pot-bellied new U.S. air freighters settled on the runways, waddled up to the parking line, disgorged their cargo through yawning doors in their fuselages. As American airmen watched this sight last week, they caught a glimpse of a bright postwar world.
Less than five days before, those freight ers had been loaded in the U.S. Crack air line pilots, to whom ocean-flying had be come routine, had taken them across 15,-ooo miles of war-char ted airways with no more trouble than they once hauled...
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