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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...troops. Eisenhower was then elevated to the temporary rank of brigadier general. Five days after Pearl Harbor he was made chief of the War Plans Division of the General Staff, later the Operations Division in the reorganized Army. As such he laid out with General Marshall the whole global design of attack and defense...
...surged against Rommel's line and the supporting air offensive rose to a crescendo, Arthur was very much all right. In the overall strategy which he helped plan and which now he saw in action, planes and pilots were functioning magnificently. Beneath Tedder's wings was a design for victory...
...planes-at Midway and in the inconclusive naval clash in which the Ryuzyo was possibly sunk late in August (see below)-that they have had to send green flyers against Guadalcanal. Planes shot down there have carried 1942 manufacturers' stamps. Zeros encountered there are of an inferior design...
Bell P39 (Airacobra)-single-engine, liquid-cooled. A part sharer in the criticism heaped on the P-40, the P39 has roughly the same limitations and the same positive virtues. Developments now being made in this design give the promise of much improved performance...
Douglas SBD (Dauntless). The Navy's carrier-based standard dive-bomber (singleengine, air-cooled), this craft is the best in the world in its category. It will shortly be supplemented by a newer design, now in production...