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Show Navy's Automatic Unwrapper For Top : , - . . . v: ;;;:;..;;; ; t . .. , -: i , ' i V: t :f .'' " " ' v i "; tLwfr aAVVH. - v.vjv.Cvw.SAC. A ..... ,...f1....1 . f I Somewhere In The Pacific A Navy flyer plummets his dive bomber in near vertical descent briefly racing his own bomb toward to-ward targets such as this Jap cruiser, our flyers bombed, burned burn-ed and sank off the Marshall Islands. Is-lands. Navy bombs are -equipped with delicate automatic fuses which have little propellers that start whirling when the bomb is dropped. drop-ped. After falling about 500 feet it unscrews the mechanism and a plunger falls into firing position ready to explode the bomb when it hits, the target. Foretelling bad news for the Japs, bomb fuses of this type, have secretly been in mass production pro-duction by Nash-Kelvinator Corporation Cor-poration since March, 1942, it was recently disclosed in a Navy ap-proved ap-proved statement announcing completion of the big contract "on schedule". Official Navy Composite Photos Acting under strict military censorship, Nash-Kelvinator became be-came one of the world's largest manufacturers of bomb fuses, producing three types for Navy bombs ranging from 100 pounders pound-ers up to Atoll-Buster size. Manufacture of these bomb fuses has been proceeding along with the company's mass production produc-tion of 2000 HP aircraft engines, hydromatie propellers, propeller governors, and large scale manufacture manu-facture ef essential parts for jeeps, seeps, tanks and trucks, and parts for submarines and ships, Thii bomb fuses, none of which have been seen by the public, have established an outstanding record in the Pacific. Larger size Navy bombs carry two of these propeller-type fuses to make doubly sure a bomb will explode one in the nose and one in the tail. None of these bombs has ever been known to fall on the target a "dud". |