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...Lure. For several days before the enemy turned on Hengyang, Major Tex Hill, formerly of the A.V.G., and Major John Allison of Gainesville, Fla., had launched pin-pricking attacks on Japanese outposts and circled their fields, daring them to come out and fight. Finally they did. These tactics and others, all part of a secret and tricky plan of their commander, Brigadier General Claire L. Chennault, fighting under resourceful Lieutenant General "Uncle Joe" Stilwell, finally led the Jap to get on with his bombing...
...plant no objection was raised to saying that the Bell Airacobra was driven by Allison liquid-cooled motors; but at Bell Aircraft itself the engine could not be named...
...Doolittle quit speed flying in the Army, went to work for Shell Petroleum Corp. In July 1940 he heard the drone of warplanes, pulled on his harness again and went back to the Air Corps. (He had been a major in the Reserve during the decade.) He needled the Allison engine plant for production, got results. He studied manufacturing techniques to boost plane output. Once he took time off to pin newly won wings on the uniform of Jimmy Jr., at a Texas training field...
...Brigadier General Claire Chennault reported from Burma that his U.S. fighter-pilots had destroyed more than 200 Jap pursuits. The Zeros are fast-climbing, highly maneuverable, highly powered (1,675-h.p.) single-seaters. And even the Zeros, despite their superior maneuverability, have been no match for the faster, Allison-engined P-40s and their superior U.S. pilots. Lieut. General George H. Brett, the United Nations air commander in Australia, reported that United Nations airmen were destroying six Jap planes for every Allied plane lost in that area...
...Page, Allison Francis...