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The "C-74 Project Group" adopted a design philosophy to produce a "no frills" transport able to accommodate at least two of the Ar.
The Douglas Aircraft Company in Santa Monica, California, also quickly saw this need and design studies were begun immediately on an expanded version of the company\'s DC-4.
Army Air Corps strategists to the realization that a new global transport was needed to carry large loads over great distances.
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 brought U.
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