Word: dive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made a heck of a racket and the sky was full of black bursts. There was the continual rattle of machine-gun fire. At first I couldn't make out what they were blazing at. Then I saw a plane suddenly take what I thought was a nose dive, when it suddenly started to level off and I saw some bombs drop out and start down. Then I realized it was a dive-bomber attack. I looked farther up and there was a whole line of these planes headed for the port. I saw one ship struck...
...certainly will stand out in my memory more than ever, as it is now my second Armistice Day. The afternoon before planes came over, amidst a hail of machine-gun fire and antiaircraft, and dive-bombed a remaining French warship which apparently had been shelling some of the American forces some distance from the town. The dive-bomb attacks evidently finished her. Some days later I saw her from a distance, down by the stern with a list. The evening of Nov. 10 was an anxious one, for while we had no really definite news it was perfectly clear that...
Stealthily through a Solomons channel a Jap Kongo Class battleship slipped near dusk on Oct. 25. A squad of Navy SBDs dive-bombed it, streaked back to Guadalcanal. A half-hour later six Army Flying Fortresses swung over the channel. From a tight, high-level formation they straddle-bombed the ship, scored two square hits. The battleship turned 45 degrees, headed north. Suddenly a magazine let loose. Fire leaped from bow to stern. The ship stopped dead. For hours the calm South Pacific sky and sea were lighted by flames until at midnight the battleship sank...
Coach Hal Ulen's son Don triumphed in the 220 yard breast stroke event, winning in 3:07. Bob Aaron took first in the dive, and the Crimson medley relay team placed fourth. This event and the 150 yard backstroke, in which there were no Harvard entrants, were the only races not won by a Ulen representative...
...prevent the disabling "blackout" of a dive-bomber pilot at the moment he pulls out of a dive, Frederick P. Dillon of Los Angeles has invented a pilot's seat which automatically stretches the pilot out supine at the bottom of his dive. This posture change keeps the pilot's blood supply from being pulled away from his brain at dive's end. At the same time the mechanism relieves the pilot of control, turning the plane over to an automatic gyroscopic instrument. When the plane has leveled off, the pilot is returned to a sitting position...