U.S. AIRCRAFT CRITICISED
"INFERIOR PLANES" IN SERVICE (Rec. 10 p.m.) WASHINGTON. Sept. 14. Senator Harry S. Truman, chairman of the United States Senate Defence Investigation Committee, said that United States pilots had proved their ■superiority as pilots on inferior aeroplanes. He called for two-fisted administration on the war production front, and said the Army should concentrate on the production of the best aeroplanes and give less attention to publicity blurbs intended to emphasise that poor aeroplanes were better than none. Senator Truman explained that the committee had authorised his speech, hoping to wake up the "brass hats." Senator M. C. Wallgren said that conversations with pilots had convinced him that American fighter aeroplanes did not measure up to the best fighters Britain was producing, while the Navy was using an aeroplane that was a joke. Senator Hiram Johnson and Senator Scott Lucas expressed the opinion that Zeros flew higher and faster than the American fighters because they were stripped of protective armament.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23744, 16 September 1942, Page 3
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