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...perform our own F-86-the only airplane in production today capable of challenging the MIG on approximately even terms." Above 25,000 ft., it can outrun and outclimb the F-86, and it can maneuver at supersonic speeds. U.S. pilots claim that with its two 23-mm. and one 37-mm. cannon the MIG is better armed than the F-86 with its eight .50-cal. machine guns...
...basic raw materials needed for defense, none is more vital than copper-and none is scarcer. Into every B-47 bomber goes a ton of copper; even a 155-mm. howitzer takes more than half a ton of the red metal and its alloys. The U.S. is the world's biggest producer (960,000tons or 40% of all output), but its crude production is lower now than it was eight years ago. It is also the biggest copper importer, but imports are dropping. Last week the Government took two big steps to boost production...
With what might be called an intimate knowledge of the Army's passion for "correct nomenclature," I can't help but wonder how many members of the military drew a bead on your Oct. 15 picture caption [which] erroneously labeled a 75-mm. recoilless rifle. It is actually a 57-mm. recoilless rifle...
...what has happened to the famed nth Marine Artillery Regiment? We have four of the shootingest artillery battalions in Korea. Not only can we shoot, but we can hit what we see. The 3rd Battalion has expended over 300,000 rounds of 105-mm. ammo since [it] landed at Inchon on the 23rd of September...
...spent his off hours downing beer by the case, persistently refused a commission ("No one can make a gentleman out of me!"), created new legends wherever he served. On Tulagi, in World War II, they told how he smashed 14 Japanese buildings in a row with his 81-mm. mortar, then popped a shell down the chimney of the 15th. Reverent marines vowed that he was really 200 years old and had first enlisted at Tun Tavern, where the Corps was born during the Revolutionary...