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...designer of the famed Liberty engines, developed Packard's Twin6 in 1915 (first U.S. 12-cylinder production car) and helped develop engines for Gar Wood's 125-m.p.h. speedboats. During World War II, he redesigned Rolls-Royce's Merlin aircraft engine (used in P-51s and Spitfires) so that it could be mass-produced by Packard...
...Sighting a "flying saucer" high over Godman Field at Fort Knox, Ky., three National Guard pilots zoomed up in P-51s to investigate. At about 25,000 feet, Capt. Thomas Mantell's plane started to spin, plunged downward, and disintegrated at tree-level. The "saucer" turned out to be a weather balloon...
...Soph touch gridders tramped the '51s 12 to 0, but the yearling softballers won 5 to 1. Sophomores ran faster and tugged a rope harder and pulled into the lead as the afternoon pounded ruggedly...
...dozens of planes are overhead, P-51s, P-38s, B-25s and P-40s. The first pursuit peels off. The bomb lets go and an orange flash and a grey puff of smoke blossom out. A few seconds later the sound reaches us-whambo-and the air rocks. The others follow in line, one after the other-flash, puff, whambo; flash, puff, whambo-until the last plane turns away...
...routine press release from the Army this week credited two second lieutenants with sinking "a large Italian transport of the 50,000-ton Conte di Savoia class." The U.S. pilots, flying A36 fighter bombers (converted P-51s), spotted a big ship anchored off a quay at Bagnara Calabra in the southwestern part of Italy. They bombed it, registering two hits and a near miss. Pilots who flew over next" day confirmed the sinking...