FORMAIDABLE FIGHTER.-Colonel Brunk Knox, Scenery to the C.X. .Vary, says that the Grumman Wildcat fighter plane packs more “wallop" than the famed Spit fire, according In a cable message published to-dug Heer is a, Grumman in, the air. A single-seater fighter, it has a range of 1000 miles. Two 100 pound bombs can be carried under the wings for dive-bombing, which is done at a speed of up to 000 miles an hour.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLIII, Issue 22478, 13 January 1943, Page 6
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73FORMAIDABLE FIGHTER.-Colonel Brunk Knox, Scenery to the C.X. .Vary, says that the Grumman Wildcat fighter plane packs more “wallop" than the famed Spit fire, according In a cable message published to-dug Heer is a, Grumman in, the air. A single-seater fighter, it has a range of 1000 miles. Two 100 pound bombs can be carried under the wings for dive-bombing, which is done at a speed of up to 000 miles an hour. Timaru Herald, Volume CLIII, Issue 22478, 13 January 1943, Page 6
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