Word: superfortress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rival. Revealed in action (in the Philippines) for the first time was the four-engined B32, Consolidated Vultee's bid for V.L.R. (Very Long Range) recognition. Under wraps in the Pacific since May, the B-32 is a little smaller than the Superfortress but is a competitor in speed, range and bomb load. The new bomber is also simpler: on the off-chance that the B-29's pressurized cabin and elaborate fire-control system might not work, the Air Forces deliberately instructed the B-32 designers to omit extras, come up with a bomber stripped to absolute...
...Lincoln, Britain's superfortress, is an enlarged and stepped-up version of the Lancaster...
Good Soldier Omar Bradley mounted the pulpit in the Central Christian Church of Moberly, Mo. Flyer Jimmy Doolittle flew his first Superfortress. Georgie Patton went to Sunday school; Carl Spaatz visited his 78-year-old mother (who told him: "You're just my baby boy"); leathery Alexander Patch brought back the gaudiest trophy yet: gewgawful Marshal Goring's diamond-studded marshal's baton...
...Superfortress teams had now hit most of Japan's large cities, and were preparing variations on their attack pattern. Tons of British pathfinder bombs had been shipped to the Marianas and would soon permit the 21st Bomber Command to bomb at night with greater precision. U.S. Army officers announced that fleets of 1,000 planes would soon smite Japan. Tokyo warned its medium and small-size cities to expect the worst. The big bombers were not the only planes that struck Japan. Kyushu Island, whence enemy planes attack Okinawa, was worked over for several days by U.S. fighters from...
...wait for strength, air power would get its second, and probably greatest, test. By last week the Army Air Forces had mined Tokyo harbor (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), and stepped up the Superfortress fire attacks on Japan's industry to 500-plane strength - equivalent in bomb tonnage to all but a few of the heaviest air strikes against Germany. The attacks would grow heavier. If there was anything left of Tokyo or Nagasaki or Nagoya or of any of Japan's industrial plant by the time the U.S. Army and Marines moved in, it would not be through lack...