bombing run
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On Monday, the head of Wagner, business executive Yevgeniy Prigozhin, claimed to have flown on a Sukhoi SU-24 fighter jet during a bombing run on Bakhmut, which is known in Russian as Artemovsk.
From Washington Post • Feb. 6, 2023
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
He had to ditch one plane in the Pacific and was shot down on Sept. 2, 1944, while completing a bombing run against a Japanese radio tower.
From Seattle Times • 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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
