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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind the new planes loomed the Big Three of Soviet light-plane design: Yakovlev, Iliushin and Lavochkin. Youngish, prolific, publicity-shy, the three designers had blended ideas borrowed from abroad with the Red Army's own unorthodox ideas on blitz warfare. All three have been laden heavily with honors and rubles...
...Sergei Iliushin, head of a state airplane-design bureau, revels in the reputation of a Man-Who-Gets-Things-Done. Stalin often visits Iliushin's offices, gives unexcited pep talks to the staff. When Hitler went on his rampage, Iliushin began to toy with the idea of a flying tank-buster. The seed of the idea was the memory of a frying pan with which many a Russian flyer armor-plated his plane seat in World War I. Out of the frying pan came the fiery Stormovik, which has destroyed so many Nazi tanks that the Germans renamed...
Each of the Big Three last year collected the lush 150,000-ruble (about $30,000) Stalin Prize for plane design. On the occasion, the press gave them its most flattering compliment: "Creators of Stalinist Aviation...
...Material. Operations would be charged with procurement, training and war operations of Army, Navy and Air. Its chief would be commander in chief of all forces in time of war.* Material would handle supply for all three branches; its officers would come from the leading technical colleges, make design and supply their life work...
Terms of the compromise, as worked out by War Mobilizer James F. Byrnes: the U.S. will build 319 Victory ships next year. It will also build about 200 "C type" cargo ships of speedy Maritime Commission design. But the bulk of next year's shipbuilding will still be Liberties-1,300 to 1,500 of them...