U.S. naval air transport plane visits northern outpost. A cargo plane of the U.S.

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U.S. naval air transport plane visits northern outpost. A cargo plane of the U.S. Naval Air Transport Service lands at Port Barrow, distant outpost of the U.S. armed forces in Alaska. Eskimos and their dog-teams and sled stand to greet the crew. Naval Air Transport has played an important part in keeping open strategically important outposts in the far north, where it is difficult to bring supplied by water or land. Military outposts in Alaska and the Aleutians Island chain form one sector of the circle of U.S. armed might that is gradually tightening on the Japanese homeland.