bombing run
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Geological Survey geologist onboard the last bombing run, was doubtful.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 1, 2022
A Soviet MIG shot down Kelleher, a 22-year-old radio operator, during a bombing run in November 1952, they said.
From Washington Times • Jul. 27, 2022
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 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
