AIR: Cargo Planes

The U.S. is getting ready for a Jules Verne venture to win the war: air freighting. To a nation pledged to deliver millions of tons of war materials to war fronts thousands of miles away, the use of fleets of cargo planes over six continents and seven oceans is no free choice. Something has to be done. The United Nations have been losing the Battle of the Atlantic for a long time now, and they are smack up against logistics—the time-space factor involved in war-supply problems. If Russia, China, Britain, Australia and the...

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