AMERICAN BOMBERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 July 1942, Page 3

AMERICAN BOMBERS

OF HEAVY ANO MEDIUM TYPE MANY BEING FERRIED TO AUSTRALIA. JAPANESE FAIL TO DISRUPT SERVICE. (Special Australian Correspondent.) SYDNEY, July 1. United States pilots are ferrying heavy and medium bombers from American territory to Australia. This has been officially announced, following a statement in Washington that worldwide military aerial transport has been established. The planes are overhauled and reconditioned immediately they reach Australia,- and they can be in action within a week of leaving the United Stcites. An American Army spokesman states that previously it took a month to ship planes in crates from America to Australia, and on reaching Australia they had to be reassembled and tested. Ferrying eliminated such delays, and also allowed valuable shipping space to be used for the transport of other war materials. The rate of ferrying of the planes has not been disclosed, but it is stated to be “considerable.” The stoppage of this aircraft ferrying system has been one of the main purposes behind the Japanese occupation of the {Solomons, and must be an important consideration in dictating subsequent enemy moves. So far, however, enemy endeavours to disrupt the ferrying service have been completely unsuccessful. Ferry pilots describe their work as “mostly enervating and intensely boring.”