NEW U.S. HEAVY BOMBER
DAYTON (Ohio), December 31. The Flying Fortress has a successor coming soon, which will be bigger, faster, and able to carry the greatest bomb-load the world has yet seen. I i Major-General Echols, commandant of] the army air force materials section, j told the Press. However, the Flying Fortress was the most valuable combat" plane produced in this war. It will not be supplanted or scrapped, he said, but parallel with its continued production the army is turning out a new super-fortress. Production of Consolidated Libera-j tors is also continuing.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 1, 2 January 1943, Page 6
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