Show troop planes leave every six sik minutes in ha his most recent news letter congressman aw W K granger states that the ardys air transport command expects to have a flight over the atlantic every six minutes when the air ferrying of arc aps ops from europe to the united states reaches its peak the tactical P planes lanes such as bombers from europe will be stepped up to between to daily these planes are being flown over the north and south atlantic by the crews that manned them in combat the army transport command hopes to return soldiers a month by air when redeployment hits full stride this service operates more than 2000 transports which fly miles every 24 hours over miles of regular routes he further says during this war american soldiers and sailors have been hospitalized in the european theatre of operations and practically all of them will be restored to duty there or returned to the united states by mid july it has been reported by the theatres theartres the atres chief surgeon that the death rate among amerl american can army battle casualties in this war was less than half that of world war 1 fewer than of those hospitalized have died while more than 2000 medical officers and soldiers have been killed hile serving with the combat troops of noteworthy importance is the report that pints of whole blood were furnished by civilians at home while the soldiers in europe furnished pints |