PLANE PRODUCTION
OUTPUT BY THE UNITED NATIONS • 1 MORE THAN DOUBLE AXIS FIGURES. ENORMOUUS EXPANSION IN U.S.A. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, May 20. Mr J. Carlton Ward, president of the Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corporation, told the National Metal Trades Association today that the following aircraft production figures (all pel month) were based on sufficient authority to give them validity: Germany, 2,900; Italy, 700; Japan, 500. Total for Axis, 4,100. United States, 3,300; Britain, 2,400; Russia, 2,900. Total for United Nations, 8,600. Mr Ward said American plane production would pass 5,000 a month in time to make good President Roosevelt’s 60,000 a year.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 May 1942, Page 3
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110PLANE PRODUCTION Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 May 1942, Page 3
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