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Show ./.-;>.a*£S Official photo, U. S. A. A. F. Finish the Fight -with War Bonds . . . and more to come With engines warmed up for the take-off, Boeing B-29 Superfortresses fill the long runway on Saipan . . . one behind another, as far as the eye can see. Across the field, as on other fields in the Marianas, still more wait to wheel into line. Tomorrow you will read in your paper: "Industrial targets in Tokyo have been hit again by 300 B-29 bombers." It was less than a year ago that the first attack on Japan by the giant Superforts thrilled the nation. Today their valiant crews are regular commuters on the more than 3000-mile round trip. In waves of sky-filling formations, they carry destruction to the enemy's workshops on a relentless schedule. Back of this achievement is another story-an epic of production. To design, build, test and manufacture in quantity an airplane that so far exceeded all previous bombers in bomb-load, speed and range-and do it in time-was an unprecedented task. It called for pioneer work in engineering, tooling and planning. New facilities and processes had to be started from scratch. Methods had to be devised for putting the vast manufacturing program into effect, not only in Boeing's own plants but in those of other aircraft companies, chosen by the Air Technical Service Command of the Army Air Forces to help increase quantity production of the big planes. Impossible as the job looked, Boeing men were equal to it. Superfortresses are rolling off the production lines in steadily mounting numbers. In the hands of h a r d - h i t t i n g American airmen, they are vital weapons in the war against Japan, and there are more . . . many more to come. Tomorrow Boeing research, design, engineering and manufacture will be applied to peacetime aircraft for your use . . . your assurance that any such product "Built hy Boeing" will he huilt to lead. DESIGNERS OF THE B-29 SUPERFORTRESS • THE FLYING FORTRESS • THE KAYDET TRAINER . THE STRATOLINER THE NEW STRATOCRUISER . PAN AMERICAN CLIPPERS BOEING |
