Word: dive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After surviving the hazards of floating mines, surface raiders, and dive bombers on a convey to Murmansk, seaman Winthrop Haskell is back in Cambridge studying to be a third mate. Souvenirs of his seven-month voyage are the current drawing card at the Russian War Relief headquarters on Dunster Street...
...Early in the week General MacArthur's bombers flew over the northern Solomons and reported the Jap convoy steaming toward Guadalcanal-"packed to the gunwales. . . . We were never able to view the entire thing at one time." There were other harbingers of a big attack. One day 35 dive-bombers screened by 17 Zeros attacked Guadalcanal's Henderson Field. Next day 31 Jap planes, 23 of them carrying torpedoes, tried to hit Navy forces that were shelling Jap positions. U.S. Wildcats shot down...
...Preparation. Nazi dive-bombers, which claimed a heavy toll of shipping in the bight of Bougie, harried the advance of British and U.S. troops. U.S. motorized units raced along the coast and joined the amphibious forces of the British First Army when it landed on the beach at Bone, 60 miles from the border. In three columns the united armies marched over the border at dawn Nov. 14 and began to make their way over the sizable mountains that divide Tunis from Algeria. Ahead of them, Allied paratroops, which left Britain only four days before, floated...
...Casablanca U.S. naval planes dive-bombed harbor and shore positions, fought French aircraft. R.A.F. fighters and bombers paced Britain's First Army and its supporting U.S. troops into Tunisia. This week both U.S. and British flyers plumped paratroops on Tunisian airports, bombed and strafed German strong points...
...Japs had managed to land 75-mm. artillery pieces and to register their fire on Henderson Field. Artillery fire and dive-bombing could harass the Japs' guns, but there was only one sure way of silencing them: to go out and swipe the guns...