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...Flying on his side at the end of one mad dive, he almost intercepted an Army lorry which was moving innocently along the road. If, later on in the war, you read about a British ace whose name begins with L, it will probably be this young man. His own comrades, who themselves have qualified for this crack squadron, say he is the fanciest aviator in the R. A. F. and we believe...
Perhaps because they have no precision bombsight to compare with the new U. S. sight, which makes U. S. aviators boast they can drop a bomb in a barrel from 18,000 feet, Germans have emphasized dive bombing which is accurate, but vulnerable to anti-aircraft machine gunning...
...R.A.F. has all sorts of specialty craft-for submarine searches, advanced training, primary training, transport, dive bombing, freight. Some are junk; some are secret and superb...
...opposite direction, sought out a squadron of the British Navy which they evidently knew was out maneuvering in open water, or which they just happened to find there. Weather favored the fliers when they located their targets: clouds low enough to afford a screen for the dive bombers to come down through, yet not so solid but that heavy, non-diving bombers could drop "stuff" from far aloft through cloud holes...
...damaging of another battleship claimed. Last week the Royal Air Force retorted to the Nazis' North Sea raids by sending bombers to Helgoland. The British story about this was: "In spite of formidable anti-aircraft fire, the attacks were pressed home at low altitude [i. e., dive bombing]. Some of our aircraft have not yet returned." The Germans claimed they shot down five out of six British planes, suffered no damage...