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...began to list alarmingly to starboard-"at an angle suggesting a motor car with both wheels on one side off." On the flight and hangar decks mechanics and pilots worked frantically in an effort to launch the ship's planes, 60 Swordfish torpedo-carriers and Skua dive-bombers...
Brigadier Wilson saw plenty of dive-bombing from the wrong end. He gave U.S. officers words of cheer about what it is like to be dive-bombed. The effect, he thinks, is 90% psychological. If the morale of the bombed outfit is high-as his was-the men will grin & bear it. But he saw many a French driver jump from his truck and run into the woods when the Stukas came over-leaving a truck to block traffic or crack up on the roadside...
Road discipline, subject of most U.S.maneuver critiques, Brigadier Wilson found vital beyond anything atextbook could say. His own brigade, always spaced out ten vehicles tothe mile, suffered only eleven casualties in a day of dive-bombing between Lille and Brussels. Other outfits, jammed up on the roads, suffered bitterly...
BERLIN--Colonel General Ernst Udet, 45, the mechanical wizard behind the Luftwaffe, who developed Germany's parachute troops and the dreaded Stuka dive bombing tactics, has been killed testing "a new type of fire-arm," according to an announcement which said his death was the worst blow of the war to the air force...
...over the Atlantic and the oxygen was sobbing comfortably in the crew's masks. Then it happened. Somehow the automatic pilot jammed. With its right aileron all the way down, the 15-ton Catalina went into a violent left turn, headed for the sea. In the dizzy spiral dive the aileron carried away, took part of the tip of the wing with it. Then the left aileron ripped off. An operator in the United Kingdom heard the frenetic chirp from the Catalina's radio: "Both ailerons gone...