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January Cover.Indd Aircraft Detail In Action Armor Detail In Action Available in Both Hard & Softcover! NEW F8F Bearcat Detail in Action NEW M19-M20 Tank Transporter Detail in Action Doyle. The Grumman F8F Bearcat represents the pinnacle of US carrier-borne piston-engine fighter design. Marrying Doyle. Collectively known as the M19 Heavy Tank Transporter, this truck and trailer combination was conceived at the a compact, lightweight airframe with a powerful 18-cylinder Pratt & Whitney Double Wasp radial engine churning behest of British in 1941, and was later used by the United States Army as well. The prime mover for the combination out more than 2,000 horsepower produced an aircraft intended to be an interceptor that could operate from the was the Diamond T model 980 or 981 12-ton truck, known as the M20, while the 45-ton capacity full trailer it smallest escort carriers. 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