World In Arms

Uncle Sam's new streamlined fighting unit is known as the “iron calvary.” It consists of armored cars, trucks, tanks and motorcycles. The armored scout car is used for reconnaissance, or picking up information, and limited combat. It has a four wheel drive on 1/2 ton truck chassis, armored on the front sides and rear, but open at the top. Driver and assistant are protected by an armored shield. Each of the cars has a .30 caliber and .50 caliber machine gun, submachine gun and a two way radio. The running board carries a shovel and an axe. A tonneau railing serves as a track for the gun permitting both anti-aircraft fire and general fire. Tripods are also carried for the use of the gun crew on the ground. Proper gearing allows each car to climb a 30° slope from a standing start. And one hour a car can go as far as it takes a horse to travel in two days!

Can America Maintain Peace with THE WORLD IN ARMS?

This is one of a series of Airplanes, Ships, Iron Calvary, Field Artillery, Fortifications, and Miscellaneous Arms of the World. Copyright, 1939, GUM, INC., Phila., Pa. “

The powerful 4 engine Boeings, known as “Flying Fortresses,” are the latest type bombers used by the U. S. Army Air Corps. Stout and swift, they are the largest land planes built in this country, weighing a gross 16 tons each, with complete living quarters for 10 men. For bombing enemy concentrations there is nothing to equal them. By flying in close formation and all dropping bombs they can assail picked areas with great damage. Five gun emplacements on each plane, four of which are shaped like streamlined “blisters,” make them practically attack proof! There is no place in the all-metal plane that can be attacked without placing the attacking airman under fire from at least four machine guns. Perfectly streamedlined, with retractable under-carriage, they can do 255 miles per an hour, with a cruising range of 3000 miles. One bomber can destroy a battleship. Note the design of a ship chalked on the terrain as a target;  also the rows of obsolete planes “getting theirs.”

Using a flying Boat has an aircraft carrier, the Mayo Composite Aircraft, invented by Major R. H. Mayo, has been designed so that a heavily loaded-long range Seaplane is launched in the air from the deck of a lightly though the flying boat. For the takeoff the two planes are rigidly attached to each other and climb with both motors in use, but the chief pilot of the lower component is in sole control. There is telephone communication between the two ships and when a suitable height is reached the signal is given by the lower pilot, “I am releasing,” and he pulls a small lever giving the pilot in the upper plane the use of his controls. The upper component rises vertically above the other and flies off while the lower plane returns to its base. The upper plane carries 1200 gallons of gasoline (giving it a range of 4000 miles). A war plane of similar type could carry a tremendous load of bombs, with full super-charging of the motors possible.

 Can America Maintain Peace with THE WORLD IN ARMS?

This is one of a series of Airplanes, Ships, Iron Calvary, Field Artillery, Fortifications, and Miscellaneous Arms of the World. Copyright, 1939, GUM, INC., Phila., Pa. “

Very little is known of Spain’s present airplane manufacturing facilities, but before the revolution the Loring Company of Madrid was making a smart two-seat reconnaissance biplane known as the “Loring R-3.” Equipped with a 600 h.p. Hispano-Suiza 12-cylinder water-cooled engine with its main fuel tanks in the upper wings, the “R3” has a top speed of 146 m.p.h. It can climb to 3280 feet in 3 minutes and has a service ceiling of 26,250 feet. Although full details of the armament are not available it is known that the “Loring R3” has racks of forty 11-kg. bombs or eight 50-kg bombs under the fuselage. The observer has a movable gun, complete wireless and photographic equipment. The fuselage is rigidly braced, welded, steel tube structure, covered in the forward section with aluminum, aft with fabric. Our picture shows an “R-3” making a reconnaissance flight, pursued from the air and attacked from the ground.

Can America Maintain Peace with THE WORLD IN ARMS?

This is one of a series of Airplanes, Ships, Iron Calvary, Field Artillery, Fortifications, and Miscellaneous Arms of the World. Copyright, 1939, GUM, INC., Phila., Pa. “

The “Avia 534” is one of Czechoslovakia’s leading fighting type planes. The Avia Company is part of the well-known Skoda works, manufacturers of both airplanes and aero engines. The “534” is a speedy one-seat, unequal-span biplane. Built on riveted steel spars, the wings are covered with fabric. The forward portion of the fuselage is armored with metal panels, the aft section with fabric. The adjustable seat has a back-type parachute. For armament, 4 fixed guns are set in troughs and fire through the air screw. Powered with a 650 h.p. Hispano-Suiza 12-cylinder water-cooled engine, it's top speed is 252 miles per hour at 14,760 feet. It climbs 16,400 feet in 5 minutes and has a service ceiling of 34,768 feet. Undercarriage is of the split-dash type, with half- axle hinged beneath the fuselage. Wheels are enclosed in streamlined casings. The pilot's cockpit can be totally enclosed, when desired. Oxygen apparatus, radio and fire-extinguisher complete the equipment.

Can America Maintain Peace with THE WORLD IN ARMS?

This is one of a series of Airplanes, Ships, Iron Calvary, Field Artillery, Fortifications, and Miscellaneous Arms of the World. Copyright, 1939, GUM, INC., Phila., Pa. “

Although Sweden is a comparatively small air power her air force is very efficient. She has recently added forty German Junkers equipped with Swedish-built Bristol “Mercury” engines. This bomber with retractable landing gear has a top speed of 226.6 miles per hour, can climb 9,840 feet in 9 minutes and has a service ceiling of 22,960 feet. Like the German “JU-86K” bomber, the Swedish version carries a crew of five. It has three gun turrets, one in the nose with full visibility and two in back of the trailer edges of the wings above and below the fuselage. Loaded with bombs the big all-metal plane weighs a gross 18,040 pounds. The span of the craft is 73 feet, 9 inches. In general it looks like a Boeing bomber might look with a Lockheed tail. Even when loaded with more than 3 tons of bombs the ship can do better than 200 mile per hour!

Can America Maintain Peace with THE WORLD IN ARMS?

This is one of a series of Airplanes, Ships, Iron Calvary, Field Artillery, Fortifications, and Miscellaneous Arms of the World. Copyright, 1939, GUM, INC., Phila., Pa. “

Still one of the most popular planes with the R. C.A.F. is the Vickers “Vedette” flying boat shown moored to a glacier during patrol duty in Canada. This is a three-seat flying boat used principally for patrol and photographic work. Biplane type, wing structure of wood, the “Vedette” is powered by a single 300-h.p. Wright “Whirlwind” air-cooled engine. It attains a maximum speed of 110 miles per hour and a cruising speed of 90 mile per hour. Its cruising range is 4 1/2 hours; service ceiling 14,000 feet. In the nose of the hull is located a large cockpit for the observer or photographer. The pilot’s cockpit is under the leading edge of the wing, seating two, side by side. Pilot and observer’s cockpits may be enclosed with detachable covers. Canadian Vickers was the first company to manufacture airplanes on a commercial scale in the Dominion. It has made a specialty of winter landing equipment and float equipment essential for summer operations in the north.

Can America Maintain Peace with THE WORLD IN ARMS?

This is one of a series of Airplanes, Ships, Iron Calvary, Field Artillery, Fortifications, and Miscellaneous Arms of the World. Copyright, 1939, GUM, INC., Phila., Pa. “