■ Internationa) News Photo. This is the first picture taken of the new American "flying fortresses" in manoeuvres. The new machines are designed to} meet the menace of giant bombers, can fly at a sustained speed of more than 300 miles an hour, and hvve two fighting cockpits and six guns which fire in virtually every direction. Six of them are seen in formation 12,000 feet above the Florida peninsula.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 107, 9 May 1938, Page 7
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69■ Internationa) News Photo. This is the first picture taken of the new American "flying fortresses" in manoeuvres. The new machines are designed to} meet the menace of giant bombers, can fly at a sustained speed of more than 300 miles an hour, and hvve two fighting cockpits and six guns which fire in virtually every direction. Six of them are seen in formation 12,000 feet above the Florida peninsula. Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 107, 9 May 1938, Page 7
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