Word: 26s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...circulation manager; and August Heckscher, a new editorial writer. The new sports editor (also Yale '36) is curly-haired, gregarious Bob Cooke, who once did a sports column for the Yale Daily News, played right wing on the varsity hockey team, was an Army flyer (in B-26s) during the war. His first official act was to assign himself back to the Brooklyn Dodgers; Woodward had switched him this year to cover the New York Yankees...
Whether it was or not, combat experience will have to prove. The T-26s arrived in Europe only last month, could scarcely have had a real workout. On the basis of specifications, the Germans' biggest Royal Tiger still holds a margin of power...
...member of the first American group of B-26s to go into combat against the Germans and Italians. This took place in North Africa soon after the invasion. We learned the hard way, trying first one tactic and then another, until we found the way to use them best...
Glenn Martin has a $131,000,000 order for about 1,000 B-26s, last week had the first 20-odd moving rapidly along his assembly line. The best news of his plane last week was not its performance (1,000-mile range, 3,000 to 4,000 Ib. of bombs) but the fact that it was approved. The experimental model which was flown last week ordinarily would have received weeks of further testing by the Air Corps, then more time would have been taken for changes. After all that, Maker Martin could have gone ahead with real production (until...