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FDR: “By the end of 1944, the Air Transport Command was carrying into China a tonnage of supplies three times as great as that…”

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By the end of 1944, the Air Transport Command was carrying into China a tonnage of supplies three times as great as that delivered a year ago, and much more, each month, than the Burma Road ever delivered at its peak.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Roosevelt provides statistics on the significant increase in supplies delivered to China by the Air Transport Command by the end of 1944.

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