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Some of the new Navy fighters are being produced complete with bomb racks and diving brakes* so they can be used as new-day Stukas. The Army's newest dive-bomber, announced fortnight ago, is North American's A36, a modification of the famed Mustang fighter. With Mustang speed (about 400 m.p.h.) and armament, the A36 also has diving brakes and bomb racks, can pull out of a bombing attack to meet enemy fighters on equal or superior terms...
...little consolation to the Italians to know that they had momentarily diverted some of the R.A.F.'s biggest night bombers from attacks on Germany. Western Europe caught it anyhow: from fast Mosquitoes that flew in daylight, unescorted, over northwest Germany; from Mustang fighters that machine-gunned an army camp; from Spitfires that strafed canal barges and locomotives; from U.S. Flying Fortresses that made their longest excursion to pound the Nazi submarine base in Lorient, France...
North American P-51 (Mustang)-single-engine, liquid-cooled. Newest of the Allison-powered U. S. pursuits, it has roughly the same limitations on altitude performance as other single-engine Allison craft. Improvement in the power plant and other technical changes promise a sensational improvement in altitude performance...
LONDON--U. S. Army Flying Fortresses struck a terrific blow at the German submarine base at Lorient, on the coast of France today and American-built Mustang fighter planes made history by flying all the way to Germany to shoot up the Dortmund-Ems Canal area...
...calibre machine guns, has a range of 500 miles at cruising speed (350 m.p.h.). > The Curtiss pursuit (Anglice: "Tomahawk") carries two .50-calibre, four .30-calibre machine guns, has a service ceiling of 30,000 feet, top speed of 350. ¶ North American's NA-73 (Anglice: "Mustang")-very hush-hush in the U. S. and barely mentionable in the press-has a top of 398, carries six guns. ¶ Army's new four-motored Consolidated ("Liberator") does a fancy (for a bomber) 335 m.p.h., has a range of 3,000 miles with two tons of bombs...