Word: armorers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Experts estimated that Germany would have to have 150,000 tons of high-grade Turkish chromium in 1943 or the quality of German armor plate would depreciate...
...Council works closely with the industry's War Engineering Board, which tackles the larger problems of methods and materials. To save welding, Fisher engineers worked out a system for bending tank armor on the presses that used to stamp out auto bodies, promptly offered it to Chrysler and Ford. G.M. had to make its own machines to bore turrets, so it made some for Ford and Chrysler too. Ford developed a new, better compound for molding ignition parts, which Pratt & Whitney now uses. "Liquid forging," a Ford casting method, releases forging equipment for other work, saves large amounts...
...firepower and protection of U.S. fighting aircraft (guns, armor and leakproof fuel tanks) are equal in all cases to the best our Allies and the enemy have in the air, and in some cases are decidedly superior. In these necessities, brought forth by the war, U.S. aircraft were deficient when the war began. It should be of great satisfaction to the American public that, when these deficiencies were remedied, the job was done with armor and with guns previously developed...
Curtiss P-40-single-engine, liquid-cooled. Most discussed of all U.S. combat aircraft, this fighter has the virtues of heavy hitting power, excellent armor, high diving speed, and the leakproof tanks common to all U.S. combat aircraft. Against the Zero it has proved, on the average, to be superior. But most P-40 pilots frankly say that they would like more altitude, if they could still maintain their advantages of superior firepower and protection...
...super-plane is this Zero, captured in the Aleutians. It is well built, flies beautifully, but has no armor, less power (900 h.p.), less speed (about 300 m.p.h.), less firepower (two cannon, two machine guns) than the best U.S. fighters...