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AMERICAN HIGH-ALTITUDE PLANE THUNDERBOLT DESCRIBED BY GENERAL ARNOLD. SUPERIORITY OF U.S. BOMBERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day. 12.50 p.m.) WASHINGTON, August 16. Lieutenant-General Arnold, commander of the United States Army Air Force, declared that the United States had developed a new high-altitude fighter called the Republic P. 47 or Thunderbolt, which, it was believed, was able to outfly any other known aeroplane. The Thunderbolt carries guns generating an impact equal to the force of a five-ton lorry hitting brick walls at sixty miles an hour. General Arnold asserted that American bombers already had established themselves as superior to anything the enemy had thus far shown. He gave illustrations from official reports.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 August 1942, Page 4
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116BEST TO BATE Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 August 1942, Page 4
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