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...Superfortress is powered by Wright 2,000-h.p. engines, has three-bladed propellers, cruises at about 250 m.p.h. at 25,000 ft. Flight says "it retains the general features of the Fortress, but it has a tricycle landing gear with double tires on each wheel. It needs them. Flight puts the fully loaded weight of the B-29 at between 50 and 60 tons-about twice the weight of a Fortress or British Lancaster...
...months ago, 144 put in at a Florida base for repairs. Another C-54 rolled up beside her, needing a new landing-gear nosewheel. Repairmen looted 144. Their idea was that a new parts shipment could re-equip 144 later...
...temporary camp with foxholes and packed their gear and supplies into...
From pontoon gear, the Navy's all-purpose "mechano" set, they have built landing barges, floating drydocks, piers, floats for cranes to transform the sleepy, down-at-heel French colonial port of Noumea, New Caledonia, into one of the Navy's greatest advance bases...
...Items. More than a million officers and men wear the distinctive insignia of the A.S.C.: a gear wheel surmounted by a propeller, supported by wings. More than 300,000 civilians also labor in the A.S.C., which handles over 500,000 different items, from a jackknife...