Word: dive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Nelson Stepanyan, an Armenian dive-bomber pilot in the Red Air Force, was made a Hero of the Soviet Union, the Russians said that he had destroyed: 78 German trucks, 67 tanks, 63 anti-aircraft guns, 19 mortars, 36 railroad cars, 20 merchantmen and warships (including one destroyer) 13 fuel tankers, twelve armored cars, seven long-range guns, five ammunition dumps, five bridges. Once, wounded, he was forced to land behind the German lines, but guerrillas helped him escape...
...casualties," said one marine. "Two thousand dead Jap bodies presented a disposal problem." In a little attack of their own the Marines slipped across their western boundary at the Matanikau River, cheerfully seized two 75-mm. guns that had been shelling them. This week, supported by fighters, by dive-bombers which knocked out Jap guns, and even by Flying Fortresses, the Marines pushed back that boundary a couple of miles...
Airpower at Sea. Fleet-minded Mr. Baldwin found the navy operating long-range, army-type heavy bombers from land bases, using its carrier-based dive-bombers, torpedo planes and scouting planes fully and skillfully, and the Army Air Forces cooperating closely and well at the fighting fronts. But: "We have not yet learned how to integrate the [naval] gun with the bomb and torpedo, how best to use surface ships with planes. . . . Neither the carrier alone nor the heavy bomber alone will win this war. Nor will airpower alone or seapower alone. . . . The lesson of the Pacific war is that...
Paced by fighter planes and dive bombers which silenced enemy artillery, the American ground forces sprung a small-scale offensive and at one point a band of Marines made a two-mile advance...
...Islands that they were doomed unless they got out in 24 hours. "You all die, you all die!" screeched the radio. From an airdrome in the Andreanofs U.S. planes took to the air, flew to Kiska. The Jap voice still chattered. A plane peeled off, went into a power dive, machine guns and cannon spitting. The voice ceased...