Word: b24
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fall of 1942 he stepped into a B24, flew it out into the North Atlantic seeking the worst weather "front" that he could find. His plane picked up a load of ice, lost flying speed and dropped into a spin. Fritz, a veteran airline pilot, straightened her out just a few hundred feet from the water. He came back still convinced that he was right. He was handed the job of proving his point as C.O. of the North Atlantic Division...
Service Heroes. Thousands of miles from warehouses and the parts they needed, the service crews of the A.S.C. have made do with what they had. They have worked without shelter in an Arctic gale, twisting hundreds of little screws to replace a broken wing spar on a B24. When tools were lacking, they made their...
...Bismarck, called up the warships for her destruction. A B-24 crossed the Atlantic from Newfoundland in the record time of seven hours, 30 minutes. This week the Air Forces' Major Alva Harvey is back in the U.S. after a routine flight around the world in a B24. From the shores of the British Isles (and probably in the Mediterranean), patrols of 24 hours and more by Consolidated boats have become commonplaces, as they have long been in the U.S. Navy...
Ford and Chrysler also have made their choice. In San Diego, Edsel Ford and his crack Production Chief Charles E. Sorensen spent a couple of days looking over a Consolidated (B24) four-motored bomber, then went north to Santa Monica to talk to Planemaker Donald Wills Douglas. Result of many conferences was Ford's announcement that it would build 6-245 for assembly in two plants. Consolidated will operate a plant at Fort Worth, and Don Douglas will see that his competitors' flying fortress is well made, properly tested, in a plant at Tulsa. Chrysler's pick...