Word: corpsmen
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...cooled power plants of half the Napier Sabre's power. For General Motors' Allisons the Army has laid out $159,500,000, and it has contracted for $62,448,000 of Rolls-Royce Merlins to be built by Packard. While waiting for General Arnold to report, Air Corpsmen could find comfort in another fact: whatever was done about liquid-cooled engine buying, it would soon be getting a lot more power in a new batch of pursuit planes. Last week Republic Aircraft Corp. put the finishing flicks to its new P-47, powered with...
...Over and through her swarmed mechanics, checking her once again. Around and through her walked her pilots, headed by the Army Air Corps's crack, cigar-chewing Major Stanley Umstead. For the B19, six years ago no more than a gleam in the eye of far-seeing Air Corpsmen, was ready to fly; within three weeks Stanley Umstead expected to take her upstairs for her first run, after he had finished the ground acquaintance begun two weeks before...