SMALL BUT USEFUL
NEW AIRCRAFT’CARRIERS DOZENS IN SERVICE SUCCESSFUL IN THE SEVEN SEAS. WASHINGTON ANNOUNCEMENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) WASHINGTON March 27. Dozens of small but useful new aircraft-carriers are now in the combat areas. Scores more were either heading for action or under construction converted from merchantmen or built from keel up as auxiliaries. The Secretary for the Navy Colonel Knox made this announcement at a Press conference. He added that these carriers hold aircraft adequate to patrol vast reaches of the ocean in convoy duty and provide a triple menace to undersea surface and air raiders. Vice-Admiral Horne who attended the conference said the new carriers had been very .successful in all seven seas. He explained that low speed has its limitations but auxiliary carriers can and have served to transport military aeroplanes. They can carry fuelled planes to within flying range of combat areas and catapult them into the air for immediate service. A substantial number of planes for North Africa were transported in .these vessels.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 March 1943, Page 2
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