NEW TRANS-PACIFIC AIR BASES
Hawaii To Australia (Received October 29, 7 p.m.) MIAMI BEACH (Florida), Oct. 28. The United States Air Force will have 2,500,000 officers and men at the end of 1943, Lieutenant-General Arnold, the army air force commander, told 2500 graduates of a candidate school. General Arnold praised the work done by pilots, gunners, and engineers in the Pacific area, and he said that the United States had constructed a chain of island air bases linking Hawaii and Australia and replacing the route which was broken with the capture of Wake Island by the Japanese. On one coral island, which he would not name because Japan probably did not know about it, engineers had built runways which were comparable with those of any huge city airport. They had also constructed a plane hoist with timber from a wrecked ship.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 30, 30 October 1942, Page 5
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141NEW TRANS-PACIFIC AIR BASES Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 30, 30 October 1942, Page 5
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