Obsolete Planes To Be Dumped By Pacific Fleet
Obsolete planes will be dumped by the Pacific Fleet as the war ends. About 8,000,000 or more aircraft will be stamped into the sea in the next few weeks, with 800 to be dropped over the side of a Royal Navy escort carrier. Surplus aircraft held in reserve by Britain’s Pacific Fleet will be decommissioned after the war, as keeping them would require more manpower and money than they are worth.
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Toney
Wetnenaas
Canada adopts Merlin engines for Trans-Canada DC 4 fleet
Trans-Canada Airlines selects British Rolls Royce Merlin engines to power its main routes across Canada and the North Atlantic, replacing salt-cooled radials in the DC 4 and DC 4-5. The move follows extensive North Atlantic operations by Canadian airliners flying high to avoid bad weather. Merlin engines, developed from wartime use, enable reliable year round service and reflect British engineering leadership in civil aviation.
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America
British Aero
Trans-Canada Airlines
Canada
Atlantic
Pacific
North Atlantic
Trans-Canada
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Ua Atriinw
Genium Amb Eden
Aisther Iavrela
Rolle Royce
Trai-Canada
Montress
Beotland
Feans-Canada Airlines Aircrate
Trana-Canada
Twelve British officers killed by Japanese in 1940
Confessions describe five Japanese men abducting twelve British officers in March 1940. They were driven to a beach where they were badly wounded with a knife, then loaded into a boat and dumped into the sea with weights. The victims were reportedly executed privately without higher approval.
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Kinoshita
Wool price trends and global demand amid postwar shifts
The report notes higher than expected wool averages in the Commonwealth, with prices below last year’s level. It discusses producers and buyers facing supply challenges, continent textile needs, and France Italy and the United States adjusting mills and imports as postwar demand stabilizes.
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Commonwealth
Winchcombe Carson Lad
Australia
Prarnas
Vest
aBritton
France
Italy
United States
American car output disrupted by wartime labor strikes
Amid postwar disruption, industrial troubles halted expected American car shipments to Australia and slowed 1946 production. Only about 50,000 units were made by December, with GM and other plants forecasting varied daily outputs and large 1946 targets facing labor-related delays across Buick Pontiac Oldsmobile Cadillac plants.
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Planta
Henry Ford
General Motors
Chevrolet
Buick
Pontiae Planta
Oldsmobile
Cadillac Planta
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