Word: seacraft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...History. Dutchmen without a home founded the Dutch Navy. They bequeathed to the Dutch sailors of Conrad Helfrich's day a tradition second to none for daring, seacraft and victory against great odds. They called themselves Les gueux de mer (Sea Beggars)-the Dutch corsairs who fled conquered Holland in the late 1500s, then harried Spanish shipping and once sailed a fleet inland across flooded fields to relieve beleaguered Leiden...
...sight in front of the pilot is also his bomb sight and, with no more complicated sighting equipment than that, he is able to make dive bombing as accurate as the U. S. Navy and its Curtis, O2C Hell Diver long ago (1928) proved it could be against seacraft. The only new aspect of Germany's dive bombing is that it is used to a large extent on land targets, supplementing and substituting for heavy artillery fire...
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