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The Crimson Route was a set of joint United States and Canada transport routes planned for ferrying planes and material from North America to Europe during World War II. The project was ended in 1943 and never fully developed.
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 ...
German soldier and his horse in the Russian SFSR, 1941.In two months, December 1941 and January 1942, the German Army on the Eastern Front lost 189,000 horses. [1]Horses in World War II were used by the belligerent nations, for transportation of troops, artillery, materiel, messages, and, to a lesser extent, in mobile cavalry troops.
Aircraft Manufacturer Type Role Entered Service Number in Service Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina [3]: Consolidated Aircraft: Amphibious flying boat: Various 1941 114
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
The list of aircraft of World War II includes all of the aircraft used by countries which were at war ... United States: 1930: 23: Canada, Mexico, Philippines ...
Aircraft manufacturing went from a distant 41st place among American industries to first place in less than five years. [1] [2] [3] In 1939, total aircraft production for the US military was less than 3,000 planes. By the end of the war, America produced 300,000 planes. No war was more industrialized than World War II.
A WAVE in a Boeing Stearman N2S United States Navy training aircraft United States Navy N2S-2 at NAS Corpus Christi, 1943 United States Navy NS-1s of the NAS Pensacola Flight School, 1936 Boeing Stearman E75 (PT-13D) of 1944 Vintage Boeing-Stearman Model 75, Breitling SA Boeing Stearman (PT-13D) of the TALOA in Dirgantara Mandala Museum, Indonesia Boeing Stearman (PT-13) of the Israeli Air ...