Bombers

Colloquial songs included: "Bombers Away" to celebrate the football team: Bombers away, my boys Bombers away, 'Cause when you fight red bombers.

A serious shortcoming was that the lowermost and uppermost bombers had the least protection; they had the fewest number of bombers and machine guns covering them.

The ’s wing included thirty-five SBD Dauntless dive bombers, twenty-one F4F Wildcat fighters and twelve TBD Devastator torpedo bombers.

The Germans also had Junkers Ju-88 fast bombers and Junkers Ju-87 dive bombers stationed on nearby airfields.

Nguyen states, “The B-52 bombers and the other bombers dropped countless tons of massive bombs on my city of Haiphong.

Against propeller driven bombers flying at perhaps convert this was not a serious concern, but it was clear the system would be of little use against jet powered bombers flying at perhaps convert.

By comparison, the British and Americans (who started the war with predominantly similarly sized bombers) developed their strategic force based upon much larger four-engined bombers for their strategic campaigns.

By the end of the war nearly 500 Mosquito bombers and fighter-bombers had been delivered successfully by the Canadian operation.

Due to a lack of Strategic bombers – the very "Ural bombers" that General Wever had asked for six years before – the Luftwaffe could not strike at Soviet production centers regularly or with the needed force.

The defense expected from bombers operating in close formation alone did not prove effective and the bombers needed fighter escorts to operate successfully.

The dive bombers were to attack airfields and anti-aircraft gun positions whilst the level bombers struck civilian targets.

The KC-135 was initially tasked with refueling strategic bombers, but was used extensively in the Vietnam War and later conflicts such as Operation Desert Storm to extend the range and endurance of US tactical fighters and bombers.

The Rhodesian Air Force operated an assortment of both Canberra light bombers, Hawker Hunter fighter bombers, older de Havilland Vampire jets as well as a somewhat antiquated, but still potent, helicopter arm.

The U.S. Air Force was adamant about retaining bombers as part of the nuclear triad concept that included bombers, ICBMs, and submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) in a combined package that complicated any potential defense.

When surface-to-air missiles became capable of hitting high-flying bombers, bombers were flown at low altitudes to evade radar detection and interception.

Zuehlke, p. 155 While the medium bombers proved inaccurate, the Hawker Typhoon fighter-bombers proved more effective at attacking coastal defences.

After sitting comfortably inside the top-eight three weeks ago, the Bombers have slumped to 13th with consecutive defeats to Geelong, Western Bulldogs and Sydney.

A keeper switch from Dumaresq to first-year studentGrace Wiley offered the Bombers some new offensive opportunities, but a green card on Schoenfeld gave the Brewers a woman-up advantage for two minutes.

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As a bomber, the F-105 could carry either a single nuclear weapon internally or the jet could carry a conventional bomb load larger than World War II-era bombers like the B-17 or B-24.