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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...word Stormovik does not refer to a particular aircraft design but to a class of aircraft-"storming" planes-of which the Iliushin is simply the best and best known...
...Axis. The Russians watched the German Blitzkrieg rehearsal with military as well as political interest; at Guadalajara their own planes effectively chewed up the Italian armor in the world's first great demonstration of attack aviation. But their planes were behind the times. Soviet design and production were not up to Soviet theory. By the beginning of the Finnish war the Russian planes were still not up to snuff and the job had to be done mainly with that faithful old standby -masses of artillery...
...lessons of Spain and Finland had been learned. Soviet design was sharpened up, and the factories began a change over to new types. In the midst of this process, Hitler struck...
...Massachusetts to 'find a place for our sitting down,' he wrote to his English sponsor saying, 'Send me, pray, a Frenchman that he may lay out our city for me.' Jefferson, two centuries later, followed his example by inviting Major l'Enfant to design the city of Washington. . . . "These and many other historic instances confirm the European source of our own art of city planning. Our most striking inventions, our most useful techniques, have often had their beginnings across the seas. . . . Those magnificent parkways, for example, which reach out in all directions from our great...
...finally got an Army command. His new job: chief of the Army Air Forces' new combined service and materiel command, with headquarters at Patterson Field, Ohio. Production-wise General Knudsen, who started his Army career with three stars on his shoulder, will be in charge of A.A.F. research, design and procurement, supply and maintenance...