Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 21, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                1945 and from Early morning Takeoff a a Liberator Field near continued from Page 2 the primary function of this ser vice command was the Supply and construction of and medical care for the Central african air transport Headquarters at Accra operated this trans Continental the air bases along the route were completed and equipped by army and troops operating under control of global air route when Northwest Africa had been cleared of the air transport command started Deve loping the much Shorter route from Casablanca via to to Cairo thence to Hab Saniyeh near Bagh to near and thence to this route connecting with the United states via the azores and Bermuda or is the major at route to India and As is now coining into use As a vital leg of the round the world air route followed by air transport c54 sky Masur planes now Fly from Casablanca to Karachi in approximately ii hours flying in four hops of approximately six hours duration stopping at the North african air transport when functioning at maximum maintained its schedules Over this main and in operated feeder and connecting some in conjunction with i air transport As follows 1 from Casablanca to Roberts in 2 from Tunis to Naples 3 from Cairo to pales Tine Lebanon Ankara and Turkey 4 from Cairo to Athens and Naples 5 from Cairo to saudi Arabia 0 from Cairo to Hab Saniyeh to Iran 7 from Abadan to Iran 8 from Abadan to babe in is the service and Cornu a cations and weather reporting and Airport maintenance Royce 01 this substantial air net work has been and is the responsibility of theater the responsibilities of the signal corps within the theater constituted a significant contribution to the Rii signal corps in addition to its Normal functions of and servicing Inte theater comm signal corps established Long Range installations which served throughout the War As essential relay Points for communications from and other Points to the United states and the signal corps installation at the chief Mission of the Eritrea base formed functions which in at least one instance had a definite and positive on combat in the the efficiency and health of american troops working under the Adverse conditions in the in Jungle and exposed to a novel array of infectious depended in Large degree upon the efforts of the medical operating All too in the Early with inadequate and preventive Medicine was of the greatest importance dysentery of different Iven Oreal and upper respiratory ailments Ore reported by the medical Section As the most sandfly fever was reported As a frequent and yellow and other tropical diseases were constant be the medical Section supervised the establishment and Maintenon of pure food and water Stan Dard adequate waste disposal sys and other foundations of essential sanitation malaria control units worked constantly in areas of Slaughter houses for fresh meat the Libs swoop Down Low on Plo Estla Oil 1 August three great of the bomber rakes on soft under belly of Leon Uxa ent John Kilker Kane were stationed around Bengali at the time of Rome and Plesti supplies were established and maintained to rigid in this heretofore unheard of Stan Dards of medics i the american typhus commis Sion has maintained a Headquarters at Cairo from which its Field work in the Middle East has been i during the Winter of Idi Uii a possibly serious epidemic outbreak of plague in Suez was prevented by the unaided efforts of medical corps personnel under the direction of Thomas venereal chiefly in Libe called for constant medical discipline and education of in March of 1943 task Force 5889 arrived in Liberia from the United charged with the Mission of defending All facilities and installations in Libe facilitating air transport and ferrying executing such missions As might by the War department in connection with relations Between the United states and liberian and to represent the War depart ment in All dealings with the Bri Tish and Friendly in pursuance of this army forces in Liberia have not Only built and maintained Roberts serviced the air trans continued on Page 4 from december the army in the persian Gulf area played their indirectly on the russian food and ammunition to the red army by truck and1 left a truck Convoy underway a yank Railroad Engineer pushes Lead up a Mountain pass and russian flyers received a painted with b red Star