Word: dive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yard of starboard wing shot off, the port wing half buckled and the fuselage bent and torn from collision with a tree. The U.S. noted all this and brought out its own slightly modified version of the plane as the A36 Invader, which did mighty work as a dive and glide bomber and ground-support plane in Sicily...
German accounts later told of new air mines-explosive containers trailed by steel cables from planes at high altitude and dropped to burst amid the bomber squadrons. Old weapons and young pilots were also thrown into the struggle. Obsolete Stukas (dive bombers), even a clumsy twin-engined transport milled about, trying to confuse the U.S. formations. The German radio said that Reich Marshal Hermann Goring had ordered into battle "youngsters who never before had engaged in combat...
...went into a terriffic dive. . . . We went so fast I was being thrown all over the ship. . . . It was like a cyclone inside the ship. God sure was with...
...once fabulously rich deposits along the Yukon's Klondike have made Canada the second largest gold-producing nation in the world (first, by a long shot: the Union of South Africa). But gold has been neglected almost since war's start. Draft-riddled companies have seen employment dive about 40%, have watched production skid from 5,879,696 fine ounces ($205,789,392 at $35 an ounce) in 1941 to 3,649,671 fine ounces last year...
After a year's end lull, U.S. airmen in the Central Pacific resumed their daily bombardment of the Japs' Marshall Islands. The Army's Seventh Air Force sent heavy, medium and dive bombers over the runways and harbors of Mili. Jaluit, Wotje, Maloelap, Kwajalein (see cut). Navy Secretary Frank Knox all but forecast imminent invasion of the Marshalls: he said the bombings were "softening up" the islands, "putting the enemy on the defensive throughout that region...