Word: dive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German's science of establishing local air supremacy. He learned that, overnight, in an area where experience and reconnaissance indicated he would oppose 50 enemy fighters, the German strength would become suddenly 100 fighters. He learned that when the Germans intended to go somewhere on the ground, Nazi dive-bombers would abruptly take command...
...loud roaring noise of planes in a dive. Someone shouts: "Those aren't ours." Out of the sun across the battlefield sweep three planes toward Edinburgh Castle. A loud series of crumps rends the air, huge clouds of blackish-grey smoke spring up at the foot of Edinburgh. Machine gunners on Sherman tanks let loose at the planes. Startled birds scatter in all directions...
...Dive--Won by Perryman (Y); second, Pastel (H) third, Huwes (H). 92.6 points...
...bomb had blocked the entrance. They made a rush for the stairs. At that very moment (here and only here did the war touch this accident) something in the sky over London frightened those who had not yet entered. Some said that it was the shriek of a dive-bomber, others that it was London's new anti-aircraft shell which sounds like "100 witches going overhead at 1,000 miles an hour." The people outside surged forward and pushed down the stairs...
...shots are those of air battles. At the Front has some of the most detailed closeups of attacking planes yet seen on the screen. It shows low-level enemy attacks so close that bombs can be seen falling from the bomb bays. Again & again enemy planes, machine guns spitting, dive head on at the camera. The camera shows the results: Allied trucks flaring up in brilliant orange and red flame, wounded soldiers being picked up, men milling in shock...