Word: 32s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MacArthur had warned the Japs that Allied reconnaissance must continue, but when B-32s droned on photographic missions over the Tokyo region, Zeros attacked. One B-32 had an engine shot out, and its pilot asked the lead plane to slow down so that he could keep up. A Jap fighter pilot cut in on the same frequency, in English : "Yes, please slow down so that I can catch you and shoot you down." Tokyo and Manila exchanged a dozen formal messages and many more informal items. For one thing, the Japs had to have more time to start envoys...
...bomber is also simpler: on the off-chance that the B-29's pressurized cabin and elaborate fire-control system might not work, the Air Forces deliberately instructed the B-32 designers to omit extras, come up with a bomber stripped to absolute essentials. The B-32s in action last week were part of General MacArthur's air forces which made their third attack in seven days on Shanghai, ranged from Japan and Korea to the Gulf of Siam...
...tussle with Lake Michigan's temperamental airs. Many an old reliable will be missing. But inland sailors will get a squint at four formidable newcomers recently purchased in the East: Falcon, last of the famed Marblehead Q Boats; Barquita and Gentian, a pair of New York 32s; and Onaway, designed by famed Designers Sparkman & Stephens...