Dive Bomber is a 1941 American aviation drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, and starring Errol Flynn, Fred MacMurray and Alexis Smith. It was produced...
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dive bomber is a bomber aircraft that dives directly at its targets. Dive Bomber may also refer to: Dive Bomber (film) Dive Bomber (video game) Dive Bomber...
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of a Dive Bomber (Russian: Хроника пикирующего бомбардировщика, romanized: Khronika pikiruyuschego bombardirovschika) is a 1967 Soviet war film directed...
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Richard Halsey Best (category United States Navy bomber pilots of World War II)
Richard Halsey Best (March 24, 1910 – October 28, 2001) was a dive bomber pilot and squadron commander in the United States Navy during World War II....
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Sturzkampfflugzeug 'dive bomber', usually refers to the German Junkers Ju 87 dive bomber of World War II. Stuka or Stukas may also refer to: Stukas (film), a 1941...
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looking out at the destruction. The film omits that the Japanese destroyer Arashi that inadvertently guided US dive bombers to the carriers that had attacked...
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Northrop BT (category World War II dive bombers of the United States)
The Northrop BT was an American two-seat, single-engine monoplane dive bomber built by the Northrop Corporation for the United States Navy. At the time...
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Junkers Ju 87 (redirect from Stukka Dive Bomber)
The Junkers Ju 87, popularly known as the "Stuka", is a German dive bomber and ground-attack aircraft. Designed by Hermann Pohlmann, it first flew in...
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Japanese Combat Air Patrol at low level due to the previous attacks, the dive bombers reduce the Japanese aircraft carriers Kaga, Sōryū and Akagi to burning...
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Blackburn Skua (category World War II dive bombers)
carrier-borne all-metal cantilever monoplane aircraft, as well as the first dive bomber in Fleet Air Arm (FAA) service. The aircraft took its name from the sea...
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Vought SB2U Vindicator (category World War II dive bombers of the United States)
The Vought SB2U Vindicator is an American carrier-based dive bomber developed for the United States Navy in the 1930s, the first monoplane in this role...
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Errol Flynn (category American male film actors)
not a big success; far more popular was the military drama Dive Bomber (1941), his last film with Curtiz.[citation needed] In later years, Footsteps in...
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Avro Lancaster (redirect from Lancaster Bomber)
Specification P.13/36 for a medium bomber for "world-wide use" which could carry a torpedo internally, and make shallow dive-bombing attacks. Originally developed...
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Halsey Best (1910–2001), United States Navy officer and World War II dive bomber pilot Richard Best, Baron Best (born 1945), English social housing leader...
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Dauntless: The Battle of Midway (category Template film date with 1 release date)
the Pacific war. During the battle, a two-man Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber crew consisting of pilot Ensign Norman Vandivier and S1 (Radioman) Lee...
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Dornier Do 217 (category 1940s German bomber aircraft)
percent hit rate. Junkers Ju 87 dive bombers repeated the assault with a 40% hit rate. The superior accuracy of dive bombing was clearly demonstrated...
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Fairey Barracuda (category World War II dive bombers)
The Fairey Barracuda was a British carrier-borne torpedo and dive bomber designed by Fairey Aviation. It was the first aircraft of this type operated...
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greater speed and its ability to dive out of trouble (it was originally designed as a dive bomber). The German bombers required constant protection by...
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Russell actually was a world champion auto daredevil who set the dive bomber record while filming Steel Arena. After being dropped off in front of a bar in a...
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reaches Dunkirk just as his fuel runs out. Gliding, he shoots down a dive-bomber approaching the mole, and is cheered on by the troops. Farrier lands...
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into the top-side of the German bomber, cutting off the rear tail section with his wing and causing the bomber to dive out of control and crash. The Dornier...
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two squadrons each of dive bombers and torpedo bombers. The dive bombers were as yet unarmed (this was doctrinal: dive bombers were to be armed on the...
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1941 Nazi propaganda film, directed by Karl Ritter and starring Carl Raddatz, which follows three squadrons of Luftwaffe dive-bomber (Stuka) flyers. The...
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Heinkel He 177 Greif (category 1940s German bomber aircraft)
to the detriment of performance in dive bombing. The use of only two counter-rotating propellers on a heavy bomber offered many advantages, such as a...
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Hell Divers (category Template film date with 1 release date)
including dramatic shots of takeoffs and landings filmed from the Curtiss F8C-4 Helldiver dive bombers after which the movie was named. Nine months before...
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Invader fire bombers (Douglas B-26C Invader No.57] and Douglas TB-26C Invader No. 59) were prominently featured in Always. The flying for the film was performed...
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Northrop YB-49 (category 1940s United States bomber aircraft)
test of the large bomber's stall recovery resulted in a sudden and dramatic high-speed, nose-over dive. The post-stall high-speed dive resulted from the...
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Oleg Dal (category Russian male film actors)
works included Zhenya, Zhenechka and Katyusha (1967), Chronicles of a Dive Bomber (1967), An Old, Old Tale (1970), King Lear (1971), On Thursday and Never...
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Against the Sun (category Template film date with 2 release dates)
themselves on a tiny life raft, surrounded by open ocean. Even seeing a dive bomber from their carrier searching for them, they realize that the search is...
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Shigeharu Murata (category Japanese World War II bomber pilots)
B5N torpedo bombers in reserve, while allocating two waves of Aichi D3A dive bombers to soften up the enemy fleet beforehand. The dive bomber strikes, under...
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