dive bomber
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
I once flew on a Caravelle in France that descended for landing like it was a dive bomber.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2012
This is the best dive bomber that was ever built.
From A Yankee Flier with the R.A.F. by Rutherford George Montgomery
