AMERICAN PLANES
FOR THE MIDDLE EAST FORCES EXPEDITED DELIVERY. FERRY SERVICE TO WEST AFRICA. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 1.10 p.m.) RUGBY, August 18. According to Press reports from Washington, President Roosevelt announced on Monday that an agreement had been reached to expedite the delivery of fighting planes direct to the British Middle Eastern forces. Under this arrangement, Pan-Ameri-can Airways would ferry the aircraft to West Africa and thence to the Middle Eastern war zone. Mr Roosevelt said Pan-American Airways were establishing immediately an air transport service from West Africa to the Middle East. Plans were under way for a transport service from the United States to West Africa for the purpose of connecting with the new air line. The establishment of the service would be one of the first concrete developments in the increase of American aid following on the Roosevelt-Church-ill meeting. The President stated that the ferrying route would be so arranged that the planes would not pass through a zone of actual warfare.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 August 1941, Page 6
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167AMERICAN PLANES Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 August 1941, Page 6
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