September, 1944. 50 Years Ago… September 1 — Sw Pacific MacArthur plans simultaneous landings on Morotai Island, midway between New Guinea and Mindanao, and Palau in the Caroline Islands for the 15th, hoping to divide Japanese countermeasures. The SWPA air forces begins heavy daylight raids against enemy air facilities in Ceram, Halmahera and north Celebes

Boeing 747 Part II – The Family Grows Seven thousand five hundred engineering drawings were used to produce the first Boeing 747. Six hundred 747s lined up nose to tail would span 42.3 km (26.3 miles). The 747 was the first triple deck commercial aircraft and the first since the Boeing Stratocruiser of the late

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