European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Yank the army weekly 1945 tation for the businessman and tourist at Low rates unique in air in aviation authorities Are looking Forward to passenger fares of 3 to 7 cents a mile soon after the the Glenn Martin com Pany boasts that its Short Range Mercury 202 could make Money on 2 cents a while chairman of believes the Strat Cruiser should operate at 2 no established yet proposes to do business at such bargain passenger rates in the now Are under 5 cents a or 10 percent less than before the rates on american airlines Are 5 cents in 8 cents elsewhere in latin and Range from 9 to 17 cents on other foreign before the Atlantic and Pacific fares were 9 to 11 cents a longer the trip the cheaper the pan american airways has filed a prospectus with the Federal government offering a fare of or 4 cents a for the airline Miles Between new York and London on its postwar four engine 100passenger american air ways has announced a prospective fare on a dc6 of or 6 cents a the present fare is or 17 cents a mile before the War it was or 11 cents a minimum firs class fare on the Queen Mary for the new York Southam ton run in 1939 was third class was on other firs class or Cabin class Cunard ers and French the fare was around although the Ai Liras intend to undercut and perhaps steamship probably the air plane will not be the Lead ing Means of transatlantic travel until its fares better third class steamship a 10hour dash to London for a Hundred which one airline Hopes for would pack pm the present Price of the flight be tween los Angeles or san Francisco and Hono Lulu is about on third above prewar pan american proposes to carry you after the War on the new clippers for the 1939 steamship fare was for first class and for Cabin All the airlines will allow a 10percent reduction for round berths will Cost up to 25 per cent of the fares in the Domestic lines have not been Able to fore cast their postwar because they cannot guess what the volume of air travel within the states will it is admitted that planes wont become the favorite Mode of travel until the current fare of slightly under 5 cents a mile is lowered within challenging distance of the approximate 2 cents mile Railroad fare and Ivy cents mile bus postwar planes the new transport planes you will see in civil Ian traffic right after the War will not be Jet silent and taking off without and they wont be helicopters rising straight up from roofs of downtown office or rockets shooting through the strato sphere out of sight at two Miles per in sober a great proportion of the first Post War transports will be simply new and the enduring popularity of the dc3 is attested by pan americans plans to have it comprise half its postwar Fleet of 100 sixty two Douglas dc4s at apiece already have ordered by various As the this plane has logged Ocean Crossings for the at with few weigh ing Over 35 it will carry 44 passengers in coach seats or 22 in plus a Crew of its four Pratt Whitney engines of he each give it a cruising Speed of 239 its length is 94 Wing Span 117 height 27 the Interior of one c54 recently was redone to show How it would look As a civilian after one fixed up for i duty orders have been placed for about 30 Curtiss Wright which also have been Success Ful in the Atcas c46 they Are driven by four Wright Cyclone engines at a 242mph cruising Speed with 36 to 42 construction Cost is but airlines want custom made rather than machines returned from the the latter have had very hard reconversion of a dc3 to civilian purposes costs one third its original that considered too much to spend on a secondhand these smallest of the new transports Are in tended for Short especially in the and for feeder lines into Long Range express that kind of Douglas also has designed the a Little lighter than the dc3 but carrying 24 passengers and cruising at 226 Mph on its two its Cost is about under that of a Martin offers its two engine Mer with a capacity of 30 a cruising Speed of 250 Mph and a Range of 250 to 700 the first Cost is by or 1947 the Douglas a slightly faster version of the and the Lockheed about 10 percent heavier than the should be coming off the Assembly these planes Are intended for coast coast express and even Tran Ocean flights until the still bigger types Are eventually they will be used for intermediate the dc6 is 100 feet has a Wing Span equal to that of the dc4 and a height 1 feet its weight tops 40 it gets a 316mph cruising Speed from four Pratt Whitney engines of he each and has a Range of at least 50 passengers can be accommodated by Day and 24 in berths at plus a Crew of sixty eight Cost ing per have been airlines also have signed for 40 Constella costing one Constellation was completed just be fore the War but never reached commercial serv Howard Hughes of Twa showed it off by piloting it to a transcontinental Speed record of 6 its weight is More than 45 and it will seat 56 Day coach passengers on Domestic routes and 40 on trans Ocean or accommodate 30 in like the the Constella Tion requires a Crew of its four Wright he engines give it a cruising Speed of 322 the really big stuff among currently planned transport Douglas dc7 and lock heed not be ready until some time after Twenty six dc7s have been ordered at a total outlay of one is partly constructed at the Long Beach Plant of no constitutions have yet been contracted for unless but it is known that at least one airline is counting on them to realize projected International no commercial Airport in the world has runways adequate for such ponderous air weighing in at 81 the dc7 is seven times the size of the dc3 and nearly twice As big As the Boeing b314 its Wing Span exceeds the height of a 16story two Cabins will seat 108 passengers but on Tran Ocean for which the ship is specifically Only 95 passengers will be accepted by Day and 79 with 20 in berths by the Crew of 10 has a separate flight the cargo holds take cubic feet of pay four engines delivering he pull the Gigantic liner Forward at 296mph cruising if the dc7 is the Constitution is its Gross weight is 92 the wings Are so thick a Mechanic can walk right inside a maximum of 149 passengers can be although on Long overwater hops Only 128 will be taken by 119 with 30 berths by More than cubic feet of cargo space Are to operate this 488 a Crew of three two a and an in the plane has the same Power Plant As the but its greater tonnage reduces its average cruising Speed by 8 not yet sold to anybody Are designs for Boe Ings 377 commercial adaptations of Martins Mars and some dream the Strat Cruiser is a commercial development of beings in a test last an army transport version flew across the country in 6 hours 9 said to be a new at 60 it is the largest land trans port actually its Wing Span is 141 feet 3 the same As the but its 110 feet 4 is 12 feet the striking feature is a double decked fuselage which can be fitted in three 100 passengers in Day coach seats for 72 Pullman seats making up into 36 plus dressing rooms and an observation lounge for 14 persons or for pounds of its four engines of he each Are said to give a cruising Speed of 340 although the ship averaged 380 Mph in its record flight its fuel tanks allow a Range of the manufacturer declares that a Crew of Only five is needed on transcontinental co Engineer radioman and two for Tran Ocean a navigator and one Steward would be beings claims to Speed Are and to comprehensive operating costs than those of its on the dc6 and larger Cabins will be air conditioned and making oxygen inhale actors unnecessary at High they will be insulated against noise and vibration by blankets of electric galleys will provide hot meals freshly prepared the prewar policy of free food is expected Tif continue at least until fares Are brought Way All postwar planes will use More plastics and Light metals to reduce heating devices will combat icing of most new planes will be Day coaches a Al sleepers combinations of All passenger planes will carry some while a few May be used exclusively As except for possible commercial use of the postwar air planes apparently Are going to be land airlines seem unanimous in pre Ferring these As More economical and lighter than flying Martin alone among the major con Cerns foresees a great future for the the 67 tons of flying boat and the biggest hunk of air plane in the is oper ated by the Navy for heavy Lon distance Martin is making 20 More of these bully boys for the Navy and insists the Type would be practical in postwar commercial freight it is Only 41 years ago that wilbur1 and Orville Wright on the Beach at got a heavier Thanai contraption off the ground for 59 now look at the Damn will Fly around the world in four Days with eight stops this screwball cameraman Clicks his shutter at East asias most photogenic but his heart belongs to a Gas by sgt Dave Richardson yank staff correspondent Northern theres a zanier screw Ball in All of Burma or India than t5 Tommy Amer of los lord Louis would like to know who he could so would Ann Jinx an entire signal photographic assorted generals and and at least two platoons of chinese As a matter of most of these people still dont know just who Amer is supposed to the other As Amer waddled his 100pound Anatomy around a place named to Mauk during the Battle for a colonel spotted what tribe Are you a member son asked the eyeing his bronzed the Sioux a Little while later some chinese soldiers happened to see the squint eyed Amer walk taking him for one of their own men ican they spouted a Long chinese Greet ing at on another occasion a general patted Amer on the Back and you japanese Amer ican boys in our army deserve a lot of and when some american infantrymen passed him on the Trail a couple of weeks they figured from his face and his Hodgepodge uni form that he was one of the Kachin Hill people of so they yelled Kajee at to All such ignorant Amer throws a Stock combining chinese and Southern rendered with a Dixie Habla a Gallt he this con founds them even according to his service Amer is a chinese american serving As a still photographer for the army signal but there Are some who wonder if maybe Amer didst have the clerk who made up his service record when he was assigned to take pictures of lord Mountbatten trip to my Itkina some months ago he wore his usual Green a wide rimmed gurkha Felt two three Flash bulbs sticking out of every pocket and a wide the Admiral looked him Over with grow ing astonishment and asked where he came los said smiled i have spent some time in i sup pose you used to work As a Hollywood photographer before you joined the replied Only been to Holly Wood twice in my i handled the Gas pump in a service this admission in itself has made Amer unique among i for its the custom in this civilian where everybody claims he made at least a week in civilian for any photographer who happens to Hail from the West coast to say with an air of nonchalance and in from thus establishing his Genius among fellow Amer is actually proud that he used to work in a service station and not As a professional when i left to join the he i owned on fifth of the but now they write me that i own More of sixth of i Hope this dont mean 111 run into income tax when Jinx Falkenburg and Pat Obrien came to Burma with a Uso Amer soon had Jinx posing for pinup Jinx liked the pictures so Well that she told Amer she would get him a Good publicity photographers come the said but in going Back to the Gas no one seems to know How Amer Ever got into army photography in the first except that i classification often does queer but he has picked up photography so fast that his pictures of brass hats and celebrities Are his specially appeared in news papers All Over the one of these of Ann Sheridan hugging a Veteran of merrills a won Amer a life Long the Exma Rauder had been so Over whelmed with the Chance to meet an honest Togo screen sweetheart that he hauled out one of his two hard won Jap flags and edged through a crowd of gis to give it to Ann was so grateful that she spontaneously threw her arms around the Amer was changing film nearby at the and he saw that the hug would make a whale of a so he asked Ann to repeat the hug and hold it until he could Click the Ann did it several Long minutes As Amer fussed with his flashbulbs and camera and finally he flashed the afterwards the i came up to Amer and exclaimed that was ill remember that embrace the rest of my i dont know How to thank Amer knew got the gis other Jap Amer loves to Needle the once a staff officer who is in the habit of confronting correspondents and photographers with the i used to be a Newspaperman once heard Amer was from los Angeles and looked him did you Ever work for a newspaper in the officer you i used to be a re Porter on the you sir piped i worked for the times for a and just when the officer was about to ask when he worked there and who he Amer i used to sell it on the his buddies in the signal photographic com Pany Call Amer the Flashbulb for he uses Flash bulbs As plentifully in taking his pictures As Mae West uses sex to make once when he was shooting some pictures in a mess one of his bulbs showering tiny pieces of Glass into half a dozen gis mess by that time it was too late for them to get any More so they we rent very Happy about the whole the Ever grinning Amer took in the then Hob la Yoxall and ended the assignment by beat ing a Hasty for two Days afterwards he refused to shoot a Flash i Felt just like a Pilot after a he Bui i finally managed to pull myself together of if any of his pictures Are Ever out of focus or overexposed or Amer shrugs j Sif the matter off to his co what can you expect from a Gas station attendant his picture captions Are As remarkable As his for look at that Little Lamb it is wearing a Jap Battle Flag that these boys killed a Jap to or at this Point one sniper gave them More trouble than All the enemy the sniper is no More we got the or Here is the place we almost got our Fanny blown to or these Ameri can infantrymen walking Back for a rest Are full of smile and in his talkative which occur several times every Amer never tires of telling How he snap used a whole division on Tennessee Maneu or How a clerk once thought his name Amer was an abbreviation for american a or How he got a purple heart in the my Itkina Battle for a tiny face Burn from a Shell that burst Only 15 Yards in his spare when Hes not out in the Middle of the Irrawaddy River fishing from an air Force life Amer studies a War depart ment Booklet How to speak All the time in getting picked up by chinese maps for wearing an american he sex and its always Tough to talk my Way out of it because i dont talk their kind of Chi you my folks were born in which has a language All its at rare Amer does run across a Chi Nese Soldier who Speaks his last week he met a chinese colonel from you say your name is Amer asked the i knew the amers you used to be smugglers in didst you that just shows you the troubles i moans fingering a even people from 11