INDUSTRIAL MIRACLE
MASS PRODUCTION OF BOMBERS
IN UNITED STATES.
HARD-HITTING MACHINES. The United States aircraft industry’s production in the next 18 months would be an industrial miracle, said Colonel John Jouett, president of the United States Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce, in New York. By the end of 1941 planes would be produced at the rate of 24,000 a year and 30,000 a year six months later. Colonel Jouett, according to the correspondent of “The Times" in New York, said that if all production could go to Britain it would give her air superiority within six or seven months. Defending American war-time built planes against amateur criticism, he said that the machines now being sent to Britain were “equal,” and in some instances superior, to the best produced elsewhere in the world.” '
The greatest service American manufacturers were rendering at this moment was in providing Britain with heavy bombers while they were getting their own production in this category under way. Until recently the British had been producing no war plane heavier than 228,0001 b. American manufacturers, on the other hand, had been developing hard-hitting fourengined bombers of the “Flying fortress” type fir several years.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 July 1941, Page 6
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194INDUSTRIAL MIRACLE Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 July 1941, Page 6
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