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...minutes later three Jap dive-bombers turned up. They could be identified by the upcurve of their wings and their nonretractable landing gears. The next minute two P-40s came plummeting out of the clouds and the show was on. The Japs broke formation. One of them was hit squarely with a burst from a P-40. It flared up like a gasoline-soaked rag, plunged earthwards, crashed in its own bombs. The two other dive-bombers jettisoned their loads and streaked away. One of them was smoking when he turned. The P-40 on his tail gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Small Plot of U. S. Soil | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

Andover has power in every event, especially in the breaststroke and the dive, fields in which they threaten the Crimson's good operatives. Captain Jim Hubbell and Harvey Pastel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YARDLING MERMEN FACE STRONG ANDOVER TODAY | 2/7/1942 | See Source »

...Dive--Won by Pastelle (H); second, Benoit (G); third, Phillip (H), 70.2 points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Mermen Win Over Gardner, 42-24 | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

After he reached Honolulu, U Saw had reason to know the Japanese devils better than ever. He had barely left his Clipper, when Japanese dive-bombers screeched down on Pearl Harbor. It may have been the hell of that Sunday morning that tipped the scales in Japan's favor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: U Saw's Bet | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

Germans who were inclined to criticize the Nazi campaign in Russia had been reminded by Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop that it was useless to rebel against a dive-bomber. Most Berliners seemed heavily apathetic to what was called "the new type of winter warfare in Russia," to Hitler's declaration of war against the U.S., to Japan's Far Eastern successes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: How It Was | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

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