AERIAL FREIGHTERS
To Carry Munitions And War
Weapons
NEW AMERICAN GIANTS
WASHINGTON, May 31
The chairman of the War Production Board, Mr. D. Nelson, is establishing an air cargo committee to speed the development of giant freight-carrying aircraft which can be used to rush critical material including everything from ammunition to unassembled tanks and fighter planes—to vital points. Mr. Harold Talbot, now directing aircraft production under the War Production Board, will head the committee, which will be composed of outstanding advocates of air transport of many nations. The task assigned to them is regarded as being tremendously important, because of the potential value of cargo planes as supply links between the United States and the fronts against Germany and Japan. However, the organisation of the committee does not imply a slackening of the vast programme for building merchantmen. Rather, it will be created with twin goals, augmenting the work of the merchant fleet and offsetting the losses of merchantmen created by submarines.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 127, 1 June 1942, Page 5
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162AERIAL FREIGHTERS Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 127, 1 June 1942, Page 5
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