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Blow Three. The Navy gave Curtiss $27 million to build a plant in Columbus, Ohio, threw in $98 millions more for Curtiss to produce its dive-bomber, the SB 2 C (Helldiver). Reported Truman: "Production was to have commenced in December 1941. Production did not actually commence until September 1942. ... To date Curtiss-Wright has not succeeded in producing a single SB 2 C which the Navy considers to be usable as a combat airplane. . . . The knowledge of the inactivity of the plant has become widely known among the friends & relatives of the [21,012] workmen...
...Despite this unsatisfactory performance, Curtiss-Wright has advertised the Helldiver plane as 'the world's best dive bomber.' [It] expended in such eulogistic self-praise...
...Allied Air Force, in its new A36 fighter-bombers, sprang a particularly nasty surprise on the enemy during the pre-invasion cleanup. An adaptation of the North American Mustang (P-51) the A36 is a 400-mile-an-hour single seater, equipped with dive brakes and wing bomb racks. It functions as a dive or glide bomber or as a low level strafing ship, specializing in such small but worthwhile targets as truck convoys, trains and power stations...
...Orel; five regular tank divisions, four smaller armored divisions (150 tanks each), and seven infantry divisions in the attacks from Belgorod-where the Russians made their only admissions of sustained German gains. In an aside to the U.S. and Britain, Moscow also said that the Germans had transferred, two bomber fleets and one night-fighter fleet from Western Europe...
...Brewster Aeronautical Corp. workers. The Brewster workers thought their president did well. Brewster stockholders are also pleased with Riebel's performance. At the annual meeting, a stockholder moved a vote of confidence in present Brewster management. The chorus of "ayes" was the first time in many a bomber's moon there has been enough confidence in Brewster to shout...