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...connivance. Some could see a telltale in the way the Gestapo detained Princess Elise a week at the Bulgarian border as a British subject, then inexplicably let her follow her father to Ankara. The Princess' husband, Major Edward Boxhall, now in the War Office in London, formerly represented armament-makers Vickers-Armstrong in Rumania. The Prince himself formerly headed Rumania's powerful Steaua Romana Oil Co., a big operator in the Ploesti fields...
...Everything," for a fighter plane, covers a lot of ground. But on its battle performance the P-51B was clearly fast, rugged and maneuverable enough to tackle any foe at any altitude. Top speed is well over 400 m.p.h., ceiling above 40,000 ft. The Mustang packs plenty of armament (one earlier version carried four 20-mm. cannon), and within a limited radius can lug two 500-lb. bombs against ground targets...
...YAK9 fighter is to Russia what the P-51 is to the U.S., the Spitfire IX to Britain. Designed by Alexander Yakovlev, this fast, durable fighter flies at 365 m.p.h., has a range of 425 miles, carries a cannon, two heavy machine guns (light armament by British or U.S. standards, but enough to do yeoman work for the Russians...
...Russia's newest, fastest, most maneuverable single-engined fighter. Its speed is 380 m.p.h. (slower than comparable U.S. types), its range 500 miles, its armament two cannon and two machine guns. Reportedly its engine is based on Curtiss-Wright designs...
Foreign Guns. "Our ships have by far the best anti-aircraft armament of any in the world. But only the 5-in. guns are of American design. The 40-mm. gun and the 20-mm. gun are of foreign design...