Bombing Run

Definition: Bombing Run

Bombing Run

Noun

1. That part of the flight that begins with the approach to the target; includes target acquisition and ends with the release of the bombs.

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Crosswords: Bombing Run

An 8th Air Force B-17 makes a bombing run over Marienburg, Germany, in 1943. The date and photographer are not known. (Army Air Forces photo).

A Japanese Navy "Judy" (Yokosuka D4Y3) bomber passes near USS Bataan (CVL-29) during an unsuccessful dive bombing run on Task Force 58, while the U.S. ships were operating off Japan on 20 March 1945. The Japanese plane was soon brought down by anti-aircraft fire. Photographed from USS Hancock (CV-19). Bataan is the ship in the center of the view. Credit: NAVY.

A violent explosion staggers Japanese destroyer escort frigate after bombing run by North American B-25's of Air Apaches Group off China Coast, April 6, 1945. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

German

bombenzielanflug. (various references)

Hungarian

bombavetési rárepülés. (various references)

Pig Latin

ombingbay unray.(various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: mourning, unrobing.

-3 letters: bombing, burning, grunion, mobbing, morning, numbing, robbing, rubbing.

-4 letters: boning, boring, bromin, bunion, gibbon, gonium, inborn, mignon, muring, nubbin, orbing, ribbon, robbin, robing, rubigo, unborn.

-5 letters: bimbo, bingo, boing, bourg, bourn, bring, bruin, burin, giron, groin, guiro, gumbo, inurn, minor, mourn, mungo, onium, robin, ruing, union, unrig.

+3 letters: moneygrubbing.

+4 letters: moneygrubbings.