TANKERS FOR BRITAIN
IMMEDIATE DELIVERY BY U.S.A. BIG TRANSPORT PLANES ALSO TO BE SUPPLIED. IBy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.45 p.m.) WASHINGTON. May 2. The delivery of 25 of the 50 oil tankers promised to Britain will be made immediately. The tankers total about half a million tons of the two million ton shipping pool. Meanwhile, the Administration has arranged to get from private industrial firms and air lines twenty to thirty large transport planes within 48 hours and more later, probably 50 to 75 in all. The planes will be sent to Britain without waiting to be converted to military use. It is understood that the Navy's extended Atlantic patrol is getting into full operation.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 May 1941, Page 6
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117TANKERS FOR BRITAIN Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 May 1941, Page 6
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