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...some 25 Ozark farmers had worked for ten days, neglecting the war, their homes and their hay-mowing, as they blasted through a 30-ft limestone wall. Drive's rescue made front pages across the land. Tearful Jake wrapped Drive in an old shirt, clambered into his two-seater buggy and went home, happy...
Slashing air combat over savagely defended aircraft plants deep in Germany made a spectacular formal debut last week for the newest and hottest U.S. Army fighter: the P-51B Mustang. Airmen wagged their heads and wondered whether, at long last, this was it-the single-seater that had everything...
Single-Seat Versatility. In single-seater fighter aircraft, the U.S. emerged as the owner of the most dazzling display of any combatant. Working on the aeronautical axiom that "there is no substitute for soup," U.S. designers got their super-powered (2,000 h.p. and above) craft off the production lines and into action. The result was something more than they expected when design was begun, generally three or four years...
A.A.F., which had to get planes from the U.S. Navy when it took up dive-bombing, discontinued the dive-bomber type, even washed out a converted fighter which had been equipped with diving brakes to make an excellent single-seater dive-bomber...
Lightning (Lockheed P-38). This twin-tailed twin-engined single-seater, most unorthodox of all fighters in World War II, has proven a sensation. One of the fastest of pursuits at high altitudes, it can also lug bombs on low-altitude missions, fight its way out when bombs are dropped. Long-ranged and heavily armed, it can do almost anything a medium bomber can do, is one of the world's best and most versatile aircraft...