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Southward, in the State of Mysore, is another great industrial concentration, where Indian workmen produce iron & steel, even a few airplanes (trainers and Curtiss Hawk fighters). Now the British wish that more of India's industries were on the west coast, fewer on and near the Bay of Bengal's vulnerable shoreline. India's industrial prizes, in the Calcutta area, lie at the end of the shortest sea and air route from Burma...
...types of transport the Army favors are military versions of the Douglas DC-4, a big four-engine job originally designed to carry 42 passengers, and the twin-engined Curtiss Condor...
...Curtiss Condor III is the largest twin-engined military transport in the world. It has a speed of better than 200 m.p.h., can carry 50 fully equipped parachutists or an equivalent weight in light field artillery. It can fly the Atlantic with ease, as a British pilot demonstrated a few weeks ago. Fully loaded, it can make 1,500 miles nonstop. It is far superior to the Junkers 52, the transport the Nazis use most frequently, which has a range of 1,000 miles...
...propellers -two tandem screws placed close together, turning in opposite directions. Blades on the second screw are pitched counter to those of the other screw so that both thrust in the same direction. Such devices for U.S. warplanes were announced last week to be "in the developmental stage" by Curtiss-Wright, United Aircraft, other plane builders...
Last week a young man from Chipley, Ga. fell 17,000 feet through the Burma sky. His Curtiss P-40, shot out of control by a Jap, hurtled past him. At 7,000 feet he pulled his parachute cord. He saw another plane dart toward him, at first thought a Jap was trying to machine-gun him, then recognized a comrade from his squadron, convoying him to earth. The young man and his parachute plopped into a rice field. A Burmese farmer spewed mouthfuls of water on his bloody forehead. Others fed him, sped him back to his airdrome...