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Word: dive (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raining heavily and all over the place bombs were bursting in the rain. We slipped and rolled in the mud. Some of our lads did terrific work with the machetes they had used to cut through the cactus hedges. They lopped down dozens of the enemy. Then we would dive on them and crash to the ground, arms locked, trying to find their throats or get our knives working...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Storming of Takrouna | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

Last week there was ample evidence that the U.S. services are working with might & main to get out faster dive-bombers, thus overcome the handicap of low speed (199 m.p.h.) which has made the Stuka a sitting duck for fighter craft and flak batteries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Difference of Doctrine | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

Some of the new Navy fighters are being produced complete with bomb racks and diving brakes* so they can be used as new-day Stukas. The Army's newest dive-bomber, announced fortnight ago, is North American's A36, a modification of the famed Mustang fighter. With Mustang speed (about 400 m.p.h.) and armament, the A36 also has diving brakes and bomb racks, can pull out of a bombing attack to meet enemy fighters on equal or superior terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Difference of Doctrine | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

...R.A.F. should be proved right, planes like the A36 will still not be wasted. They are still good fighters. And the U.S. services are betting that the R.A.F. is wrong, as it was only a few years ago on heavy bombers. So there is more doing in the U.S. dive-bombing field than the conversion of fighters to double duty. To supersede the SBD, both Douglas and Curtiss are building specialized dive-bombring aircraft, with less speed than fighters, but more range, more load. And over areas where U.S. seamen or soldiers fight, dive-bombers will still come howling down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Difference of Doctrine | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

...Brakes are installed on dive-bombers to maintain constant speed in the dive, give the pilot a steady aiming platform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Difference of Doctrine | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

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