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« • Peacetime Power Goes To War Upon Land, Sea and Air Fronts\A Diesel power unit going into of the famed M-4 tanks.Auto engines power M-6 tanks, M-8 howiUer motor carriages.—rj „ .v—.-w. . J/KSMIH1)ft,truck finds muddy going- at OM builds the Duck,” a many-Ik* front.—Signal Corps photo. purpose amphibious vehicle.‘The LST, n dramatic new inva- AUison liquid - cooled enginesBion craft, is powered by Diesel power the P-38 Lockheed Light-engines,—Marine Corps photo.While much of General Motors* huge war production consists of military products in the making of which it had no previous experience—airplanes. tanks, aerial torpedoes, guns and aircraft cannon, shells ancl shell cases, amphibious vehicles, etc.—yet the motive power developed by' this company in peacetime is rendering ^reat service on land, fot sea pud in the air in this most mobile of oil wars. Among the peacetime items of motive power that Gen-cnl Motors has sent to war are:i On land —Diesel engines \ lor tanks, tractors and raili- » lary locomotives.-{. Truck engines for all kinds of trucks, including1 those : teed for field kitchens, ambu-: Unces, mobile repair shops ' and transport vehicles.| «- Automobile engines. fornine, hjyti-altiluUe fighter.tanka and howitzer motor carriages.At sea—Diesel engines for . landing craft and many other naval vessels such as submarines, submarine mother ships, subchasers, destroyer escorts, towboats, mine-lay- . crs, mine-sweepers and fleet tenders. Also for naval auxiliary power.On land and sea—Truck • engines for the amphibious ,lt;Duck.,rBesides, there are the AUison aviation engines which, though never produced for peacetime civilian use, were in the experimental and development stages, for quite a few years before Pearl\ Harbor or the war in Europe.. These liquid-cooled engines are* ftnworing improved versions of U S. Army fighter planes. * J
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Carthage Panola Watchman
Carthage, Texas, US
Thu, Apr 13, 1944
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