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Sherrod is a veteran of New Guinea, of Attu, and of the dive bombing of Wake, but "I never was so scared in all my life as when our little boat headed for the beach through a barrage of Jap mortar shells and automatic weapons. The first two boats we met had already been disabled. I gritted my teeth and tried to smile at the scared Marine next...
...been ordered to lead his fighters to cover dive-bombers and torpedo planes making a strike on a small Jap task force. When he got into the air, he found his instruments were quirky, but he decided to go on. The task force was spotted, then Jap planes appeared...
Last week the Germans threw parachute troops, dive-bombers and seaborne reinforcements against British and Italian troops defending nearby Leros. The Nazis said flatly that the island had fallen, boasted that the British Aegean gains had been reduced to the islands of Samos, Nicaria and Castelrosso. The British admitted that the Germans had made progress from their beachheads on Leros, did not boast about the chancy, raggedly conducted operation in the Aegean...
...Guadal, when some of the airmen were griping about the holes in the runway, Geiger walked down to an SBD (Douglas dive-bomber) spotted on the apron, climbed in. Without a single escorting fighter, the Old Man took the SBD off the flight strip, flew north to a village where the Japs were headquartered, dropped his 1,000-pounder, went home. His pilots got the idea...
...Navy's single-motored SBD dive-bomber, which is generally credited with sinking more combatant enemy tonnage than any other weapon...