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...With the Nene," says Rentschler, "we got our hands good and dirty in jets." Then Pratt & Whitney, working with Rolls-Royce, developed a much more powerful jet, the J-48. Boss Engineer Luke Hobbs was also blueprinting the designs for a different type. Last year his men finished the axial-flow T-34 Turbo-Wasp, an intermediate jet type which drives a propeller. Hobbs pushed on to the pure-jet J-57, last January had the first model in a test block. As its blast shook the concrete floor of the test cell, Jack Homer said: "Well, I think...
...Guinea, U.S. and Australian troops were closing a trap around one Jap force while bombers at tacked the coastal base of Madang. U.S. troops on New Britain had widened their beachhead and Douglas MacArthur's planes steadily attacked the Admiralty Islands, through which Japan fed the axial base at Rabaul. From new bases in the northern Solomons U.S. planes battered that once-great Jap outpost, destroyed more than 400 Jap planes. Announced U.S. losses: 60 planes...
...spite of unfavorable weather, Mil Sci gunnery classes have continued as usual, although shifting winds and varying pressures have been making it difficult for the "B.C." at times. Mil Sci III is getting its first taste of "Large T" and wishes it could go back to "Axial...
Greece and Turkey could not forever resist the Axial shadow. Unless Britain at home and in the Mediterranean could do something about it in a big military way, the charge of Axis pens into the Southeast would be hard to stop. Last week Adolf Hitler had signed himself to within 250 miles of the Dardanelles...
...spoken as a result of explicit orders from Rome and under protest, for he has been considered a moderate. Optimistic Britons hoped last week that his recall indicated that Dictator Mussolini wants him in Rome to put the brakes on Foreign Minister Count Ciano's hell-for-leather axial policy. Certainly the Ministry of Justice in Fascist Italy today is not an important post...