Word: dive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...planes came from carriers, from Iwo, from the Marianas-and their targets were the home islands of Japan. They were torpedo planes, dive bombers, at least three varieties of fighters and the great B-29 Superforts. They struck in daylight and at night from all directions and they hit with everything-six-pound jellied-gasoline fire bombs, high-explosive factory busters and rockets. The tempo grew faster & faster. Latest scores...
Meanwhile the fleet was again heavily engaged. For an hour and a half Japanese bombers, Kamikaze crash-dive planes and baka bomb pilots smashed at U.S. shipping. When it was all over, U.S. gunners, ashore, afloat and aloft, could count up 168 enemy planes and one baka bomb destroyed...
Warplanes roamed the skies, found holes in the cloud banks to dive on milling Nazi columns and add the finishing touches to the job. A winter and spring of ceaseless air attack had left the Germans weak, immobile, unable either to fight or get away...
...baka had a 16-ft. wingspread, an estimated range of 35 to 40 miles, a speed of from 400 to 600 m.p.h. (depending upon the angle of dive). It had twin rudders, but first reports from the Pacific said it seemed to be wild and difficult to steer...
...Admiral's communique told the U.S. public what the U.S. press had dutifully refrained from telling: that the Japanese have organized a suicide corps of flyers whose mission is to crash-dive their explosives-laden aircraft into ships; that this Kamikaze (Divine Tempest) Corps has damaged some major U.S. fleet units and sunk some smaller ships...