bombing run
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A Soviet MIG shot down Kelleher, a 22-year-old radio operator, during a bombing run in November 1952, they said.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 27, 2022
Those strikes followed a bombing run targeting the Lutsk military airfield in the country’s northwest, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency said, quoting Yuriy Pohulyaiko, head of the military administration in the area.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2022
In September 1944, on a bombing run from the aircraft carrier San Jacinto, his plane was hit near the island of Chichi Jima by antiaircraft guns.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2018
On Sept. 2, 1944, his plane was hit by Japanese ground fire during a bombing run on Chichi Jima in the Bonin Islands in the western Pacific.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2018
On the night of July 31, 1943, the fifteen aircrews of a Po-2 squadron got ready for their nightly bombing run.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
