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...firepower and protection of U.S. fighting aircraft (guns, armor and leakproof fuel tanks) are equal in all cases to the best our Allies and the enemy have in the air, and in some cases are decidedly superior. In these necessities, brought forth by the war, U.S. aircraft were deficient when the war began. It should be of great satisfaction to the American public that, when these deficiencies were remedied, the job was done with armor and with guns previously developed...
Curtiss P-40-single-engine, liquid-cooled. Most discussed of all U.S. combat aircraft, this fighter has the virtues of heavy hitting power, excellent armor, high diving speed, and the leakproof tanks common to all U.S. combat aircraft. Against the Zero it has proved, on the average, to be superior. But most P-40 pilots frankly say that they would like more altitude, if they could still maintain their advantages of superior firepower and protection...
...that six Axis planes are shot down to each U.S. plane in combat. (If this success is owing to pilot excellence rather than plane capabilities, that is a good argument for not sending U.S. pilots out in flying coffins like the Jap Zeros. If U.S. planes were stripped of armor, puncture-proof tanks and parachutes to make them lighter-hence more maneuverable, and able to fight at higher altitudes-pilot loss, like the Japs', would be terrific...
...armor-plated monster (eleven feet high, seven feet wide and almost as long as a freight car) can speed 60 miles per hour to the scene of crime, riot or disaster. For use when it gets there it has every kind of equipment the ingenious inventors could think...
...triumph for the world's greatest adapters. How the underestimated little single-motored plane could get away with such power and maneuverability was a mystery for several weeks after Pearl Harbor. U.S. aviators soon found part of the answer (and made the most of it): no armor protection for pilot or self-sealing fuel tanks, therefore less weight. The rest of the story has come out gradually from examination of shot-down Zeros...