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...account, he was just another warhawk when he took a senatorial excursion to South Vietnam, where--by simply keeping his eyes open--he found out things which completely contradicted officials dogma. Yet there is something in Young's attitude that makes the quick-change act incredibly hard to swallow. He is skeptical not only about the administration's Vietnam policy, but about the administration, period. And if, like certain other Senate liberals, Young avoids attacking the President directly, he more than makes up for it in his comments on the Secretary of State...
Fears & Hopes. Radio's liberal Elmer Davis, never a warhawk, was among the newsmen who registered some surprise at the President's apocalyptic tone. He asked if the President wasn't being too pessimistic: "Haven't we got enough energy and intelligence in this country to keep from slipping back into the dark ages even if we would have to fight another...
Production of Curtiss' P-40 Warhawk, a version of the old P-40 with which the U.S. started the war, will be cut back, terminated by year's end. The P-61 Black Widow will keep its job as a night fighter. Bell's P-63 Kingcobra, which has a 37-mm. cannon among its armament, will be made principally for shipment to Russia...
...French and English orders, a mechanically apt youth, a small backlog of trained personnel. And in spite of everything, nine types of combat plane were already in production: the Flying Fortress (B-17), Liberator (B-24), Mitchell (B-25), Marauder (B-26), Lightning (P-38), Airacobra (P-39), Warhawk (P-40), Thunderbolt (P-47) and Mustang...
...Warhawk (Curtiss P-40). One of the most heavily criticized of U. S. fighters, the rugged null (of the earlier Tomahawk and Kittyhawk series) were the backbone of U.S. defense in the early days of the war, drew many a slam because critics blamed them for results stemming from inexperienced tactics, lack of radar and other cause? outside the aircraft's ability. From Feb. i, 1942 to June 30, 1943, P-405 in all theaters, including Northwest Africa, destroyed 560 enemy craft, damaged 128, while losing 204. Yet the P-4O, of which more than 10,000 have been...