Lease lend loadings. Welding wheels of Douglas twin-engine light bombers to a platform on deck insures safe transit from an American port to the bombers' destination. Crews of highly specialized workers are required to load assembled planes on shipboard and to prevent their becoming dislodged in heavy seas. These precautions are unnecessary when planes are sent unassembled in crates; however, most planes going to the Near East are shipped ready for flight within one hour after docking, since in many ports competent unloading equipment is lacking or has been demolished by Axis raids