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
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
"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 Montgomery, Rutherford George
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
