Miscellaneous Icons

[MarkSheppard]

Attached in a ZIP are my modifications of the SPACMO MBT F-82 icon(s) to produce a WW2 era P-82; I did these before I found out through research that the P-82 was cancelled around April 1945.

RG179 War Production Board, NARA II
Select Document File
Boxes 21-30
Declassified through NND 730022

MONTHLY MUNITIONS REPORT
W-14 Plane Program
Revised through May 25, 1945

WAR PRODUCTION BOARD
Program and Statistics Bureau
Military Division, Aircraft Branch
April 29,1945

Confidential

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P-82 PROGRAM CANCELLED

Only 20 P-82 fighters will be turned out at North American, Inglewood instead of the 786 previously scheduled. The P-82 is a twin-engine fighter with Merlin engines. First flight tests indicated that a long period of development would be necessary so it was decided to hold production to pilot-line operation. Only a few hundred workers are now engaged in P-82 work but this cutback should make possible release of 2,000 to 3,000 workers who were to have been shifted to P-82 production.