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Douglas O-31 - Observation aircraft; Douglas O-43 - Observation aircraft; Douglas O-46 - Observation aircraft; Douglas A-24 Dauntless - Army SBD dive bomber; Grumman OA-9 Goose - Army JRF flying boat; Grumman OA-14 Widgeon - Army J4F patrol aircraft; Fairchild UC-61/86 Argus - Liaison aircraft/trainer; Fairchild AT-21 Gunner - Advanced/gunnery ...
B-24s under construction at Willow Run. Willow Run, also known as Air Force Plant 31, was a manufacturing complex in Michigan, United States, located between Ypsilanti Township and Belleville, built by the Ford Motor Company to manufacture aircraft, especially the Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber. [1]
The Curtiss-Wright XP-55 Ascender (company designation CW-24) is a 1940s United States prototype fighter aircraft built by Curtiss-Wright.Along with the Vultee XP-54 and Northrop XP-56, it resulted from United States Army Air Corps proposal R-40C issued on 27 November 1939 for aircraft with improved performance, armament, and pilot visibility over existing fighters; it specifically allowed for ...
At the start of the war Hughes Aircraft had only four full-time employees—by the end the number was 80,000. [14] [15] During the war, the company was awarded contracts to build B-25 struts, centrifugal cannons, and machine gun feed chutes. [16]
The entity was established just before the outbreak of World War II when the Australian government recognised that supplies of aircraft from traditional sources could no longer be assured. To ensure supply of aircraft, in 1939 the government set up the new Department of Supply and Development with an Aircraft Construction Branch within that ...
No war was more industrialized than World War II. It was a war won as much by machine shops as by machine guns. [4] In January 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appealed to Congress for $300 million to be spent on procuring aircraft for the Army Air Corps. At the time the Corps had approximately 1,700 aircraft in total.
Complete Book of World War II Combat Aircraft (1988) 414pp; Angelucci, Enzo. The Rand McNally Encyclopedia Of Military Aircraft, 1914-1980 (1988) 546pp; includes production data; Harrison, Mark, ed. The economics of World War II: six great powers in international comparison (Cambridge University Press, 2000) Overy, Richard (2016).
The list of aircraft of World War II includes all of the aircraft used by countries which were at war during World War II from the period between when the country joined the war and the time the country withdrew from it, or when the war ended.