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Show Hellcats Take Zeros -30 To Nothing I SOMEWHERE IN THE PACIFIC PA-CIFIC Official U. S. Navy photographIn pho-tographIn the recent smashing attack on Wake Island, one of the first brushes which the powerful pow-erful Hellcats, shown in action at the top above, have had with jjap Zeros, the score was 30 to ' nothing in favor of the U S planes. The two girls in the lower picture using tiny flashlights are making mak-ing final inspection of a 2,000 horsepower P. & W. supercharged aircraft engine at the Kenosha',' Wis., plant of Nash-Kelvinator. This motor will be wrapped and boxed and then be on its way to become the fighting heart of a Navy Hellcat like those shown above in Flight "Somewhere in the Pacific". Each of these engines en-gines contains more than 12,000 pieces and they must fit together to-gether with tolerances of practically practi-cally "minus or plus nothing". In a Navy Day telegram to employees employ-ees who build these special engines en-gines for the Hellcat and Corsair fighter planes Rear Admiral Ramsey Ram-sey thanked the workers and urged urg-ed them to keep the engines com-ingi' com-ingi' At'odds of 30 to nothing these engines are mighty profitable war products and make good hunting for our fliers. |