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...Heinkel 177 is a 35-ton bomber powered by four 1,200-h.p. Hirth air-cooled engines. It is believed to have an eight-ton bomb capacity at normal range (about 500 miles), a top speed of 300 m.p.h.*The presumption is that it would be as effective in bombing Britain as the Lancaster, Britain's best heavy bomber, is in raiding Germany. But the Germans have yet to prove that they can turn out 177s in great quantities...
...very crude. The weakest point is the cooling system; cooling area per cylinder is under 1,000 sq. in. compared to 2,800 in the genuine Wright Cyclone. The propeller is a duplicate of the U.S.-made Hamilton Standard. The air frame is very similar to the German Heinkel HE 113. Most of the other features are standard with many other types of fighter craft now in use. The armament is heavy but not unusually so: two 20-mm. cannon, one in each wing, and two 7.7-mm. (30 cal.) machine guns on either side of the nose...
...Nazi blockade of the Skagerrak. In the midst of a blinding snowstorm on the evening of March 31, the ships slipped out of harbor to a rendezvous with British destroyers. Waiting for them, plainly tipped off by Göteborg spies, were German warships and swarms of Heinkel bombers. More than half the convoy was sent to the bottom; a few ships crawled back to Göteborg; only one or two got through to the North...
Nazi reconnaissance planes discovered a flotilla of powerful British destroyers which may have been steaming toward the rumored naval concentration off Tripoli. Swarms of Heinkel & Junkers dive-bombers swooped down on the destroyers in midafternoon, sank the 1,935-ton Lively on their first attack, were driven off by British Beaufighters on their second, sank the 1,695-ton Kipling on a third go and so severely damaged her sister ship the Jackal that the British sank her next day. The signs of increasing Axis activity might simply be provoked by an Allied success in the war of nerves...
...find their objectives-a huge Arado Flugzeugwerke assembly plant for Messerschmitts and a Heinkel torpedo-plane plant-the R.A.F. was forced to dive through the shimmering light curtain, headlong into terrific anti-aircraft fire...