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WHEN INVASION STARTS. BIG AMERICAN GLIDERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, May 17. Ford-built gliders loaded with jeeps and in two-way rajlio communication with towing planes will be taken into the enemy lines when an invasion starts, says a “Daily Express” correspondent after a visit to the United States headquarters of the Air Support Command. The Ford glider has a wing-span of 84ft,, is more than 48ft. long, and accommodates 15 fully-equip-ped soldiers and two pilots, or a jeep and six soldiers. The jeeps’ two-way radio will guide fighters and bombers during an attack. The Air Support Command was established a year ago under BrigadierGeneral R. C. Candee, who remarked to the correspondent: “We are planning Vo operate from here.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 May 1943, Page 4
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