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Fly To New YorkWhen the 43rd bomb group of the eighth air force returns to its home base at Davis-Monthan field early next week from two*week maneuvers at Wendover field in Utah, Col. .lames C. Seiser\ jr., will immediately set the group at work preparing for its part in a massflight of B-29's over New York City.Plans are in the making for thelargest peacetime flight of Superfortresses. More than 125 planes are being lined up for the mock bombing raid on the nation’s largestcity.Gen. George C. Kenney, commanding general of the strategicair command, will lead the Suier-f or tresses on the maneuvers. The planes will be over other largecities of the East, including Washington and Philadelphia.Several motives are behind the B-29 flights. During Army week, some 64 planes from the eighth air force .including about 30 planes from Davis-Monthan field, took part in a demonstration over Los Angeles.‘Raided* Kansas CityMore recentlv the local lxmbers% ?ijoined in a raid” over Kansas City in which 75 planes took iart.For one thing, the B-29 hops are for drill, which is neccssarv forI **the training of postwar Superfortress crews. For another, the flights are notice to the world that the United States, whose air forces were depleted by mass discharges follow ing the ending of hostilities can again put large numbers of heavv bombers into the skies.W ' _ ^And the trips over Washington and New York will bring the air might of the U. S. to the personal attention of the congress which appropriates the money for its continuance and to the representatives of the United Nations whose function it is to provide the world w ith peace machinery.Newsmen will accompany theflights.
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Tucson Daily Citizen
Tucson, Arizona, US
Sat, May 10, 1947
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