Word: curtisses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cylinder engine, once to 1,150, then to 1,325. Today, at Allison's Indianapolis plant, where 400 engines were produced in May, the production is being turned into 1,325 h.p. jobs. What they will do to step up the performance of the Bells, Lockheed and Curtiss P-40s is a secret The Army Air Forces keeps religiously...
...Curtiss P-40s were already winging their way over the mountains of southwest China; in Washington it was said that more hundreds of fighter planes were promised. Oil was at last available-all the oil and gasoline that the thirsty cylinders of Chiang Kai-shek's war machine wanted...
Over these island stepping-stones the U.S. was forging a chain about the Japanese Empire. One after another for months PBY flying boats have flown into the Orient. Hundreds of U.S.-made planes are poised on Dutch airfields in the Indies : Martin bombers, Curtiss pursuits. Singapore hangars are filling with Lockheed Hudsons and Brewster Buffalos...
...Henry was reported well equipped with planes, tanks, Bren gun-carriers and artillery, all having heavy fire power. He also commanded an unknown quantity of material: the Australians used Tomahawk fighters (Curtiss P-40s) to drive the Ju. 88s away at Sidon...
Last week half that many-100 Curtiss P-40 planes-had reached Burma. For the past few months tall, bronzed American airmen have been quietly slipping away from eastand west-coast ports, making their way to Asia. Pilots to fly the P-4Os and ground crews to maintain them will soon be scattered over southwest China from the Burma border to Chungking. These pilots were not just a crew of barnstormers turned warstormers. They had been, until recently, crack U.S. Army Air Corps pilots. To take on this combat job they had been allowed to resign their Air Corps posts...