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...revived Cherbourg's waterworks by sending damaged turbo-electric units to England to be rewound, moved 60 tons of coal from Courcelles to Creully to stoke a pasteurization plant and relieve a desperate milk shortage. G-5 teams carted diesel fuel into the Bayeux district to get flour mills going...
...four 2,200-h.p. Wright engines (nearly twice the power of the B-17 Fortress) and each engine is equipped with twin turbo-superchargers for undiminished power at high altitude. The four-bladed propellers are 16 ft. 6 in. across, the biggest on any combat plane in service...
After that one the Japs hit back, sent bombers and an escort of Zeros to shoot up the American base. Tommy Lanphier and four other Lightning pilots attacked eleven Jap fighters, pulled away and began to climb. At 35,000 feet, where the turbo-supercharged Lockheeds were still flying handily, they turned on the gasping Zeros. In a few seconds seven were plunging down in flames. The other four started downhill...
...originally planned to equip destroyer escorts with steam turbines just like destroyers. But these turbines require hard-to-get herringbone reduction gears made by firms like De Laval Steam Turbine Co., Milwaukee's Falk Co. and the Farrel-Birmingham Co. Hence a switch was made to turbo and diesel electric drives. But this has run into a shortage of diesel engines and electrical equipment...
...airmen really started to work. Besides Fortresses, Liberators and Lightnings, George Kenney has samples of almost every type of combat plane the U.S. can produce: twin-engined Boston (A-20), Marauder (B26) and Mitchell (B25) bombers, Kittyhawk (P-40) fighters, plus some Australian Beaufighters and Beaufort bombers. The turbo-supercharged Lightnings can hit the Zeros high, and the heavily-armed Kittyhawks catch them when they come down...