Word: b26
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...convoy reached the vicinity of Lae, where more Zeros undertook to protect it. Then George Kenney's airmen really started to work. Besides Fortresses, Liberators and Lightnings, George Kenney has samples of almost every type of combat plane the U.S. can produce: twin-engined Boston (A-20), Marauder (B26) and Mitchell (B25) bombers, Kittyhawk (P-40) fighters, plus some Australian Beaufighters and Beaufort bombers. The turbo-supercharged Lightnings can hit the Zeros high, and the heavily-armed Kittyhawks catch them when they come down...
...medium and light bombers (B25, B26, etc.) are the best in the world. They have been tested in all theaters. U.S. scout bombers, product of the Navy's longtime development of this destructive art, also are without peer among single-engine dive-bombers...
...what he saw was not good. In December the aircraft engine industry turned out 2,400 military engines, but it was still on the edge of quantity production of the high-output (2,000 h.p. and up) engines needed for such Air Corps bombers as Martin's B26. And plane production for the month was only 799 (of which 40% were trainers...