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...asked if he'd had a hit. 'No, dammit,' he said, 'when we took off there was a twenty-knot wind blowing, but when I got over the Ryuzyo I figured it had dropped to fifteen knots, so I pushed over and dove, allowing for that much. Well, it had really dropped to only five knots, so I missed the Jap carrier by about twenty feet.' As you know, twenty feet is practically aboard and a hit from that close can do plenty of damage. So I guess it's safe...
...Final dove descend...
...about it afterwards. He reached for the switch, said to himself: "Ah, at last." But the Zero jumped on Cocky's tail. He pulled up, but his plane stalled. When he came out of it at 4,000 feet he found two Zeroes on his tail. He dove, ending up with the altimeter reading 1,000 feet and doing 500 an hour, hedgehopping and gradually pulling away from the three Japs who had followed him all the way. His exhaust was shooting smoke...
...after the Battle of Jutland, Flight Commander F. J. Rutland dove from the deck of the seaplane carrier Engandine to rescue a wounded rating whom a ship's heave had plunked into the sea. A proud Britain awarded Hero Rutland one of its most sparingly given decorations: the gold Albert Medal...
General Auchinleck, in command of the battered British Army which had been pushed back within fighter-plane range of Alexandria, began to harass the Germans to keep them from resting. His New Zealanders dove into the southern flank of the German line, pushing it back. Rommel patiently shifted one of his crack Nazi mechanized divisions from the short to the long side of his line, to prevent being hemmed in too close to the sea. Then, at dawn one morning, Auchinleck's linesmen cracked the short side, drove through a division of Italians, advanced five miles in 90 minutes...