Word: dive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dive-Bomber...
During our recent attacks against the enemy on Wake, he insisted that he could do a better job as a correspondent if he participated in the attack. ... We allowed him to participate in a dive-bombing attack against Wake. The pilot took him down through the antiaircraft fire in an almost vertical dive of many thousands of feet with a release and final pullout at under 1,000 ft., which didn't seem to faze Bob Sherrod in the least...
...nation's weirdest war plant, he found such things as this: Brewster was trying to build dive-bombers for the British without complete drawings of the plane or a list of materials needed...
...miles behind the bombers and catching up fast when a 7.7 slug from a Zero entered the cockpit. I pushed over, skidded away and went into a steep dive at 500 feet. I barely managed to mush out at 50 feet over the water. The Zero had less luck, I guess. At least he wasn't there when I looked-just a big splash...
...wriggle out of the strait jacket, but he was soon laced in tighter than ever by the rough & tumble Brewster union. He had no time to untangle the materials mess Result: Brewster failed in production on the Navy's Corsair fighter, although production of the so-so Brewster dive-bomb er picked up. In August, month of Brewster's latest strike, not a Corsair was delivered...