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...supply lines-by plane across Africa, by ship around Africa's tip-some men and equipment had reached them, but their losses at Tobruk had been great. Last week members of a U.S. ground crew established camp, raised the U.S. flag over a tiny sector of the desert. Medium bombers flown by U.S. pilots have been flying alongside British bombers for some weeks; harassing Axis supply lines. The British had superiority in the air before the fall of Tobruk. They probably still...
...coal resources in the Don. Peat and refuse were burned in furnaces. The scythe and sickle reappeared in grainfields. Horses (once-scorned symbols of kulak individualism) replaced tractors. A trade-union investigator was acclaimed a national hero when he found enough rusting scrap metal to make "450 light and medium tanks...
...Whether they have received enough from Britain and the U.S. for an effective offensive, no one outside the high command knows. The R.A.F. had clear superiority in the air when the front was stabilized at El Alamein; it now has considerable help from the U.S. Army Air Forces: U.S. medium bombers last week joined the heavy bombers and fighters already in action in Egypt. Correspondents, summing up the total of U.S. aid, were allowed to say only that it was not yet a flood, but that it was more than the trickle of a few months...
General Arnold used a payoff phrase in describing these fighters and their improved descendants. He said that they were "medium-altitude fighters." This meant that they did all right up to a certain altitude (General Arnold allowed them some 16,000 feet), but lagged above that height. But he left the impression that despite this limitation they were thoroughly satisfactory fighters...
...engine in the U.S. "medium-altitude fighters" is what keeps them down. This engine is General Motors' liquid-cooled Allison- a power plant which has been the subject and victim of more controversy than any other single element in the U.S. fighter picture. According to combat pilots recently back from fighting fronts, the Allison now going into U.S. Army fighters is reliable, efficient, easy to maintain, a good engine within its limits. Its main limit is that it does not deliver enough power above medium altitudes...