AIR BATTLESHIPS
OF NEW AND REVOLUTIONARY TYPE SOON TO BLAST ENEMIES FROM SKIES. DECLARATION BY GENERAL ARNOLD. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) NEW YORK, September 1. A now and revolutionary air battleship with a bomb capacity of half a car-load and a flying range for a round trip from America to Europe will sooii blast our enemies .from the skies, the Chief oi the Army Air Forces, General Arnold, disclosed in an article in the magazine ’’Army Ordnance.”
He added that the new bomber dwarfs the Flying Fortress and has numerous “blisters,” which are really multiple-gun power turrets that can be controlled from sighting stations, and also bomb-sights as revolutionary as the present Norden sight. The air battleships carry bombs of an entirely new design, and they may mount heavy-calibre cannon of a new principle of operation. General Arnold also disclosed that the air forces of the near future will have new types of fighter plane which will have advanced beyond recognition in shape and combat equipment.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 September 1943, Page 3
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