The Archive · 1941

World's Largest Bomber Ready

This picture of the Douglas B-10 bomber, me world's largest bomber, was taken shortly before it was completed in the Douglas factory at Santa Monica, California Capable of carrying eighteen tons of bombs from Honolulu to Tokyo and return, or from New York to Europe and return, this eighty-tons giant of the skies stands three storeys high and has a wingspread of 212 feet. it has taken four years to build and more than U.S.2,000,000 has been spent on It successfully completed, its trials recently.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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