Word: dive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From now on, the A.A.F. will do its dive-bombing with fighters, contends it can do just as accurate a job in support of troops or against water targets as the Navy can with its two-seated, slower aircraft specifically designed...
...Navy will stick to the dive-bomber, which has unquestionably been its most potent air weapon. Its contention: the dive-bomber can dive steeply, even vertically against a target, thus has tremendous accuracy; the fighter bomber has to go in at a shallower angle, thus must allow for a looping trajectory in the fall of the bomb. The pilot must also drop his bomb and pull out at higher altitudes to keep from hitting the ground, or water, or risk pulling his plane apart in a violent recovery. The next twelve months should show which service is right...
...DIVE-BOMBERS...
Dauntless (Douglas SBD). This is the Navy's one dive-bomber in wide service up to now. Outdated by later design as of Pearl Harbor, it was still all the Navy had, was still better than anything the enemy could show. Result: a spectacular record of destruction of enemy craft at Midway, the Coral Sea and in all the actions in the South Pacific...
Invader (North American A-36). Dive-bombing version of the Mustang, recently discontinued in the Army Air Forces concentration on fighter-bombing...