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The surpassing skill of the American dive-bomber pilots, for example, was important, but that didn't keep 65 of them from failing to score a single hit when they all attacked a lone Japanese destroyer.
The Beginning of the End James D. Hornfischer 2011
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He explains how a Dauntless dive-bomber drops a bomb but says very little about how the pilots, led by dynamic warriors such as Richard H. Best and Earl Gallaher, developed skill and esprit in a demanding professional art.
The Beginning of the End James D. Hornfischer 2011
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Kehaar the black-headed gull had flow to the rescue, screaming down and attacking Woundwort like a Stuka dive-bomber.
MIND MELD: Books That Hold Special Places in Our Hearts and On Our Shelves 2009
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Yet for all his interest in those "individuals who found themselves at the nexus of history," Mr. Symonds gives little space to the men who destroyed the Japanese carriers: the dive-bomber pilots.
The Beginning of the End James D. Hornfischer 2011
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However, the standard dive-bomber, the Junkers 87, designed in 1936 and first tested in 1937, was thus rather slow, and vulnerable to enemy fighters.
Deathride John Mosier 2010
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The original ground attack aircraft, the dive-bomber, or Stuka, had an extremely sturdy airframe to enable it to withstand the force exerted when it pulled up out of its dive.
Deathride John Mosier 2010
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Columns of fleeing refugees were systematically attacked by the German fighter and dive-bomber aircraft.
Are US Forces Executing Kids in Afghanistan? Americans Don't Even Know to Ask 2010
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What they did manage to do, however, was to transform it from a dive-bomber into a tank killer.
Deathride John Mosier 2010
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Columns of fleeing refugees were systematically attacked by the German fighter and dive-bomber aircraft.
Are US Forces Executing Kids in Afghanistan? Americans Don't Even Know to Ask 2010
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Columns of fleeing refugees were systematically attacked by the German fighter and dive-bomber aircraft.
Are US Forces Executing Kids in Afghanistan? Americans Don't Even Know to Ask 2010
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