AIR SUPPLY ROUTE
SUBSTANTIAL DELIVERIES TO CHINA. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) NEW YORK, December 10. United States Army Air Transport Command is flying, war material to China via a new “aerial Burma Road’ at a rate exceeding the tonnage carried by trucks over the ' old Burma Road, says the “New York Times’’ Washington correspondent, who quoted an authoritative source. The new air route is operated over the worst terrain in the world, varying from tropical jungles to passes through jagged snowcapped peaks 17,000 feet high. The Air Transport Command since it was established a year ago has carried more than 200,000 persons across the world with a safety record of 99.97 per cent.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 December 1943, Page 3
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113AIR SUPPLY ROUTE Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 December 1943, Page 3
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