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Name Location Coordinates Notes Presque Isle Army Airfield: ME Chief port of embarkation for U.S. aircraft flying the North Atlantic. Headquarters, 23d AAF Ferrying Wing, Ferrying Command 12 June 1942; re-designated North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, 11 February 1944; Redesignated North Atlantic Division, ATC, 27 June 1944.
After American entry into World War II, performed any necessary servicing on aircraft transiting over North Atlantic route. In addition, beginning in early 1943, it acquired the additional mission of training engineer aviation personnel and staging hundreds of 4-engined heavy bombers and preparing them for the overseas flight to European and ...
Due to the United States' neutrality at that time, early series aircraft were flown to the Canada–US border, landed, and then towed on their wheels over the border into Canada by tractors or horse drawn teams, before then being flown to Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) airfields where they were then dismantled and "cocooned" for transport as ...
United States to British Isles March 1942 1945 troopships BHX Bermuda to Liverpool: May 1940 March 1941 97 (# 41-137) sailed from Bermuda and merged with same number HX convoy at sea CK Charleston, South Carolina to British Isles 1944 1944 rarely used CT British Isles to Canada 1941 1941 troopships CU: Caribbean (later New York City) to Liverpool
Aircraft Manufacturer Type Role Entered Service Number in Service Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina [3]: Consolidated Aircraft: Amphibious flying boat: Various 1941 114
The route was developed in 1942 for several reasons. Initially, the 7th Ferrying Group, Ferrying Command, United States Army Air Corps (later Air Transport Command) at Gore Field (Great Falls Municipal Airport) was ordered to organize and develop an air route to send assistance to the Soviet Union through Northern Canada, across Alaska and the Bering Sea to Siberia, and eventually over to the ...
Staff pilots flew a target tow aircraft, or flew a bomber for trainee gunners and bomb aimers. In January 1941, 55 of the 70 staff pilots at Jarvis were Americans. On 19 May 1942, 23 American staff pilots and 11 other American airmen stationed at Jarvis resigned from the RCAF and left to join the United States Army Air Corps .
Toronto: Macmillan of Canada. ISBN 0-7705-1486-3. Topics of the day: Bases boon to Newfoundland. St. John's Telegram. April 16, 1948. Topics of the day: 0,5. Signal Corps. St. John's Telegram. April 17, 1940. The Western Star. Interviews and correspondence. Town of Stephenville. Interviews and correspondence. United States Army Air Force ...