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The Wolseley-Vickers wheel-cum-track car was a prototype passenger car with a tracked undercarriage. Though was practically no need for the Wolseley-Vickers hybrid vehicle for civilian use, military customers were interested in it as a “staff vehicle.”
The Mk V was a Fighter design in the form of a sesquiplane (a biplane having one wing of less than half the area of the other) with straight lower wing and no tail. The experimental craft was fitted with a 600 hp Rolls-Royce Goshawk engine and two Vickers machine guns. While it demonstrated equal capability to conventional fighters of the day, other issues prevented it from going into production. It was first flown from Andover in May 1934.
Newsmap. Monday, May 25, 1942 : week of May 15 to May 22, poster, May 25, 1942; [Washington, D.C.]., University of North Texas Libraries, Digital Library, digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.
Graf Zeppelin Aircraft Carrier
Crew: 1,720 + 306 flight personnel
Aircraft: 10 Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighters, 20 Junkers Ju 87 “Stuka” dive bombers, 20 Fieseler Fi 167 torpedo bombers
On 16 November 1935, the contract for Flugzeugträger A (Aircraft carrier A)—later christened Graf Zeppelin—was awarded to the Deutsche Werke shipyard in Kiel. Construction of the ship was delayed since Deutsche Werke was working at capacity, and the slipway needed for Graf Zeppelin was occupied by the new battleship Gneisenau, which was launched on 8 December 1936. Work started on Graf Zeppelin on 28 December, when her keel was laid down. She was launched on 8 December 1938, the 24th anniversary of the Battle of the Falkland Islands, and she was christened by Helene von Zeppelin, the daughter of the ship’s namesake. At the launching ceremony, Hermann Göring gave a speech. By the end of 1939, she was 85% complete, with a projected completion by the middle of 1940. By September 1939, one carrier-borne wing, Trägergruppe 186, had been formed by the Luftwaffe at Kiel Holtenau, composed of three squadrons equipped with Bf 109s and Ju-87s. (Wikipedia) Continue reading “Graf Zeppelin – CV1”
The Blackburn B-24 Skua was a carrier-based low-wing, two-seater, single-radial engine aircraft operated by the British Fleet Air Arm which combined the functions of a dive bomber and fighter. It was designed in the mid-1930s and saw service in the early part of the Second World War. It took its name from the sea bird. (Wikipedia)
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When an officer just returned from service in Bataan and Malaya was shown this bulletin, he said that it should carry this comment:
“A careful reading of this bulletin may save your life.”
