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

"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