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When the Japanese ships reached Rabaul, a U.S. Navy carrier force of 100 planes hit them. Torpedo planes and dive-bombers reported hits on five heavy cruisers and a light cruiser. Torpedoes alone hit two destroyers and a sixth heavy cruiser. Dive-bombers hit a second light cruiser. Later, Army planes bombed port, installations at Rabaul, claimed hits on a merchant ship...
...Dive-Bomber...
During our recent attacks against the enemy on Wake, he insisted that he could do a better job as a correspondent if he participated in the attack. ... We allowed him to participate in a dive-bombing attack against Wake. The pilot took him down through the antiaircraft fire in an almost vertical dive of many thousands of feet with a release and final pullout at under 1,000 ft., which didn't seem to faze Bob Sherrod in the least...
...nation's weirdest war plant, he found such things as this: Brewster was trying to build dive-bombers for the British without complete drawings of the plane or a list of materials needed...
...miles behind the bombers and catching up fast when a 7.7 slug from a Zero entered the cockpit. I pushed over, skidded away and went into a steep dive at 500 feet. I barely managed to mush out at 50 feet over the water. The Zero had less luck, I guess. At least he wasn't there when I looked-just a big splash...