AMERICA AT THE WAR.
ITS. AERIAL CONTRIBUTION. MACHINES OF NO USE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn Copyright. Received Feb. 1", 10.10 p.m. Washington, Feb. 1(1. A Congressional sub-committee's war expenditure report states that although more than a billion was spent of the 1,600,000,000 dollars appropriated for aircraft construction, the United States only shipped De Haviland aeroplanes to Europe by Armistice Day, and these machines were unfit for modern warfare. The report adds: The War Department's statement that 11,000 airplanes were manufactured in the United States up to Armistice Day was 'deceptive, since the number included several thousand discarded and unsafe machines—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 February 1920, Page 5
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101AMERICA AT THE WAR. Taranaki Daily News, 18 February 1920, Page 5
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