dive bomber
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“I miss him,” Biden said of McCain at the memorial, located near where McCain’s Skyhawk dive bomber was shot down in 1967 by the North Vietnamese.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 21, 2023
The aircraft collection, previously owned by Allen, consists of 23 warplanes that include a British Spitfire, a Japanese Zero, a German Stuka dive bomber, a Soviet Ilyushin II and a U.S.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2023
CHAY-DA-GAHI, which translates to "turtle," came to mean a tank, while a GINI, "chicken hawk" in English, became a dive bomber.
From Reuters ● Jun. 5, 2014
"It was very frightening - like a stuka dive bomber with screaming motors and the pressure gauges spinning around."
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2013
This report says His Majesty's carrier, Staunch, has on board a new type of dive bomber which put a pocket battleship out of action and later landed upon the deck of the carrier.
From A Yankee Flier with the R.A.F. by Rutherford George Montgomery
