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Show ONE OUT OF 40,000 During February, which was the heaviest month for delivery of aircraft, air-craft, the Air Transport Command lost, enroute to destinations, only 4-100s of one per cent of the planes flown. This means one plane out of 40,000. Maj. Gen. Harold L. George, chief of the service, says that operating routes extend from Florida Flor-ida across the South Atlantic to Africa with branches to Cairo, Russia and Chungking; Maine to Labrador and Greenland to Britain, across Canada to Alaska; from San Francisco to Honolulu; and down the chain of Pacific Islands to Australia. ' He adds that not a single plane has been lost as the result of enemy ene-my action on the long Pacific ferrying fer-rying route, although there have been attempts to interfere. o ' |