The Archive · 1939

New Speed Record To Honolulu

Fifteen U.S. Navy Planes Complete Flight

Washington, June 29.

The Navy Department disclosed last "ght that a new speed record had been established in the transfer of fiicen new Navy bombers to Hawaii in a mass flight which some quarters believed was timed to comcide with the crisis in the Orient.

The reinforcements brought the U.S. Navy air contingent in Hawaii to a record high of 71 planes in addition to Army planes stationed on the island—United Press.

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