Word: dive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this July 4 morning, we all read in the newspapers and heard on the radio of the German dive-bomber attack on British ground troops in Egypt. This attack occurred July...
...Desert Dive-Bombers...
TIME, July 6: "It was high time, past time that the British learned the use of dive-bombers in desert warfare...
British Hurricane planes piloted by South Africans were ordered up to meet the attack (the cooperation between the R.A.F., the S.A.A.F. and the ground troops is as close as the cooperation between Hitler and his satanic majesty). There were 15 German dive-bombers, protected by a screen of Messerschmitt 109 fighters-both Germany's best. The South Africans shot down 13 out of the 15 German dive-bombers and wiped out one Messerschmitt for luck...
...Vulnerable weapons are not necessarily useless. Example: aircraft carriers. Let not Reader Cook forget that Field Marshal Rommel might never have got beyond Libya had not dive-bombers blasted the way for the capture of Bir Hacheim and Tobruk...