Word: armament
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...Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft pictured on p. 29 of your May 17 issue will not, as captioned, "Shuttle Steel to Kiska" or anywhere else. ... Its lack of armament and the odd-shaped "holes" in the hood door and fuselage stamp it unmistakably as something other than the P-38 interceptor pursuit or fighter bomber...
...outfit, Miranda Bros. Inc., prospered by selling things below the Rio Grande. First it was automobiles. Then they became minor-league merchants of death, unloading leftover U.S. war supplies in Latin America and in the Balkans. The leftovers ran out. So the Mirandas formed their own manufacturing company, American Armament Corp., to make light artillery and ammunition...
...being produced complete with bomb racks and diving brakes* so they can be used as new-day Stukas. The Army's newest dive-bomber, announced fortnight ago, is North American's A36, a modification of the famed Mustang fighter. With Mustang speed (about 400 m.p.h.) and armament, the A36 also has diving brakes and bomb racks, can pull out of a bombing attack to meet enemy fighters on equal or superior terms...
...other British bird cages carrying "a stock of hand grenades, the idea being to bring down the enemy by dropping the grenades on him from above." The German set off for home, "vibrating violently in every wire at a sizzling 45 miles an hour." "Weighed down by its armament," the gun machine failed to match the German's altitude of 5,000 feet. The authorities removed...
...disarmed for ten years after World War I, suffered a vital loss in experience. And when General Göring took over the Luftwaffe in 1933 he kept bomber models of that year in mass production "in order to build up a big air force at once." Armor and armament were sacrificed for the sake of speed...