["Swoose" plane]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09587.067 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Newspaper clipping Date: 1941-1945 Pagination: 2 p. : Height: 9.5 cm, Width: 10.7 cm Order a Copy
This newspaper clipping is from an unknown newspaper. The front is a black and white photograph of a plane in flight. Caption reads: "designed for use in snow, this novel ski-wheel gear is on North American 'Texan' (AT-6, SNJ). It was dubbed 'Swoose.'" Handwritten in pencil says "AT we don't use the skis" on the bottom center. The reverse is information about a plane called the Fieseler Fi-156K.
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