Word: b18
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over Florida's Eglin Field, an old B18 staggered in midair. Flame belched from its nose, and the plane slowed perceptibly. There was a loud report; the plane flew on. That experiment in aerial gunnery took place four years ago. Last summer, in the South Pacific, the Japs saw a new Mitchell bomber (B25) that also belched flame with frightening results. Last week the Army Air Forces confirmed what the enemy well knew: the U.S. had aircraft which carried a full-sized cannon...
...planes the Japs destroyed were largely obsolete - old two-motored B18 bombers, early P-40s, discontinued P-36s (which, nevertheless, shot down most of the planes credited to the Army...
...Alabama, have joined the fleet by this time. The "biggest-ever" (45,000 tons), 30-knot Iowa was launched, in August, her sister ship New Jersey this week. These big, new, cruiser-fast battleships differ from the old Pearl Harbor ships as a Flying Fortress differs from a B18. Other signs of naval recovery...
...most forceful officer I have ever known" was the way Major Elbert Helton, one of the 19th's squadron commanders, characterized 37-year-old Lieut. Colonel Austin Straubel, who was wounded over Surabaya but managed to land his B18 on a small airfield. Colonel Straubel had died when help arrived...
Slight, scarred Lieut. General George C. Kenney, who took over the Southwest Pacific air command in August, had the answer: send them by air. George Kenney scraped together every transport plane he could find, including old, outmoded B18 bombers, early version of four-motored Liberators left over from Java, Lockheed and Douglas planes made in the U.S. for the Indies' K.N.I.L.M. airlines. George Kenney then flew thousands of soldiers to New Guinea. It was the first big airborne troop-transport job undertaken by the U.S. in a theater of operations...