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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...
...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...
...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...