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The biggest aviation merger in world history was all set and ready to go last week: ingenious, light-plane maker Vultee Aircraft into venerable, bomber-builder Consolidated Aircraft. When officially joined some time this month, the new Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. will be a vast, highflying enterprise with $270,000...
The convoy was only 30 miles off New Britain, near Gasmata, when a B-24 Liberator on reconnaissance picked it up. A Flying Fortress escorted by eight long-range P-38 (Lightning) fighters flew in to intercept. They found that the convoy carried an umbrella of 14 Zeros. They shot...
Logical supply route to Kiska from Japan is to the south and west (where a Consolidated Liberator bomber sighted and bombed another cargo ship on the same day). Possible explanation for the B-25's victim being where she was: she was trying to slip into Kiska from the...
The operation to which CINCPAC referred was an air raid on Wake. It was perhaps the best evidence yet of interservice cooperation. Enough four-motored bombers (censors released a picture showing one of the crews in front of a Liberator) took part in the night flight from "an advanced airfield...
The designs of the new dreadnoughts owe much to U.S. and British experience in battle. The R.A.F. originally taught the U.S. Army Air Forces to increase the gun power of fighters and bombers. In the 1942 Fortress and Liberator the Army not only taught the British a lesson but dismayed...