Word: dive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tonners, all completed since Pearl Harbor. In the carrier task force were half or more of the 27 fast carriers now in service.* There were schools of destroyers and fast-stepping cruisers. Over them, when the air strikes began, were swarms of Hellcat and Corsair fighters, Helldiver dive bombers, Avenger torpedo planes...
...Hill's flight deck, went out through the ship's side and burst over the water. But the Zeke itself crashed on the after half of the carrier's deck, crowded with 34 loaded planes, ready to go. That kindled a raging fire. Then a Judy (dive bomber) dropped a 500-pounder through the flight deck, and crashed into the base of the island structure. The Bunker Hill's fight for life...
...thunder"), but U.S. fighting men promptly tagged it with another Japanese term, baka ("stupid"). In operation, Stupid is carried near its target by a bomber, then cut loose. The pilot glides down and can fire three rockets in the tail to give him bursts of speed for his death dive...
...from the north. . . . Five-inch guns shot one down 1,000 yards off and another close aboard. Two circled to the stern and No. 3 [gun] mount shot both down, one so close we got our first casualty-one man killed. A moment later a Val [Japanese dive bomber] exploded just off the starboard quarter, injuring several men. A plane from the port bow grazed the No. 3 mount and exploded near enough to put one gun out of action...
...handle when he's hot, came to life next day in the match play battle at New Jersey's Essex County course. He sank a 35-footer, outdrove hard-slamming Sambo. Snead's putting meanwhile went from poor to punk, ended in a nose dive on the water-soaked greens. Nelson, six-up at the 13th, closed it out at the 33rd with the score four-and-three. That left the unofficial championship just about where it was in the first place. With a win apiece, Nelson and Snead were still wrapped up in a photo finish...