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...type of Mitsubishi Finsei engine, essentially a copy of the U.S. Pratt & Whitney Wasp with features of the Wright Cyclone and British Bristol Hercules, is used in many of the Zeros. It is a 14-cylinder, double-banked, radial air-cooled engine, rated 1,050 h.p. when run on 95 to 100 octane fuel. Workmanship is spotty; some parts are finely finished, others are very crude. The weakest point is the cooling system; cooling area per cylinder is under 1,000 sq. in. compared to 2,800 in the genuine Wright Cyclone. The propeller is a duplicate...
...those of 1914. The democratic world waited for General Maurice Gamelin to start. Few detected any symbolic menace in the frivolities of Paris, continuing despite blackout and mobilization. The city's latest dither was occasioned by an attempt by the couturier Mainbocher* to bring back the Victorian wasp-waisted corset, as ill-adapted to modern habits as was the French High Command to the blitz technique that Berlin was perfecting over the French horizon...
...Axis lost no time in claiming great success. Sunk, they said, were 15 cargo vessels totaling 180,000 tons, three cruisers, two destroyers. Sunk was the Eagle, set on fire was the U.S. carrier Wasp. Damaged ships, said the Axis, also included the 22,450-ton Furious. Destroyed: 42 Allied planes...
...Axis claims were extravagant. Berlin later admitted that the report about the Wasp was incorrect. But the British admitted the loss of the new 9,400-ton heavy cruiser Manchester. They also admitted the torpedoing of the Eagle...
...carriers are about the size of U.S.S. Wasp (14,700 tons), 500,000 tons will provide about 34 brand-new carriers. Keel-layings will follow hard on bill-signing, and Chairman Vinson waxes choleric at any hint that shipyards cannot handle the business. This would give the U.S. a total of about 85 good-sized carriers. (A few guessers think that the new carriers will include some of very small tonnage, for fighters only. They would act as scouts and defenders, to protect the big carriers bearing the dive- and torpedo-bombers. If such small carriers are built, the total...