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Show Flying Boat Brings 800,000 Letters WASHINGTON, March 12 Nearly 800,000 letters from service ser-vice men in the Pacific to their home folks have just arrived in the United States aboard the navy's flying boat, Mars, as part of the largest air mail load in history, 23,846 pounds. The navy, announcing this Sunday, said the load was 9000 pounds heavier than any previous previ-ous mail cargo. The shipment was put aboard the Mars at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, an.:' landed at San Francisco less than a day j later. The Mars, under command of I Lt. Commander, William E. Coney Con-ey of Baltimore, also brought I back 1200 pounds of critical war material. |