ARMY & NAVY: Sky Battleship

ARMY & NAVY Sky Battleship

To its list of biggest everythings, last week the U. S. added the B-19, a 70-ton flying battleship, capable of flying to Europe and back at from 200-300 m.p.h. with a 28-ton "useful" load of bombs, fuel, crew, miscellaneous cargo.* "Useful" load is not to be confused with bomb load; how much the bomb load is in the B-19 the Army did not care to say. care to say.

Being built by Douglas in Santa Monica, the B19 will easily dwarf all previous U. S. planes, including the newest...

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