dive bomber

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Before departing, Biden visited the John Sidney McCain III Memorial near the site where, as a 31-year-old Navy lieutenant commander, McCain’s Skyhawk dive bomber was shot down by the North Vietnamese.

From Washington Times • Sep. 11, 2023

Biden was ending the trip at the John Sidney McCain III Memorial near where, as a 31-year-old Navy lieutenant commander, his Skyhawk dive bomber was shot down by the North Vietnamese.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 10, 2023

"It was very frightening - like a stuka dive bomber with screaming motors and the pressure gauges spinning around."

From BBC • Aug. 30, 2013

Completing the backdrop behind him on the hangar deck was a Dassault dive bomber.

From Reuters • Oct. 6, 2011

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 Montgomery, Rutherford George