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PB2Y (patrol plane) may now be officially spoken of as the Coronado, the P-40F (fighter) the Warhawk, the SBD (dive-bomber) the Dauntless. But it was still hard to visualize a dusty, sweaty operations officer telling a pilot to "get in that Skymaster and take some food up to the boys at Buna." (Skymaster-C-54 four-engined transport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Numbers Into Names | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

...Army was willing to show that armament-it was yesterday's-but the number and caliber of guns on the Warhawk, successor to the Kittihawk, was as much a military secret as Republic's P47 Thunderbolt, the giant 2,000 h.p. fighter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Firepower | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

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