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

Working with and effectively for the War Department during the bomb project, he witnessed the test explosion of the world’s first nuclear device and flew on the Nagasaki bombing run.

From New York Times • Aug. 9, 2021

He was on his 23rd bombing run over North Vietnam when he was shot out of the sky and taken prisoner in October 1967.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 29, 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