bombing run
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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
Assigned to the Army Air Forces, the sergeant took off on a bombing run from Biak in July of 1944, and his aircraft was shot down and crashed into the sea hundreds of miles away.
From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2021
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
Naval Academy and in October 1967, McCain was on his 23rd bombing run over North Vietnam when he was shot out of the sky and taken prisoner.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 25, 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
