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DIVE BOMBING

Specialty Definition: DIVE BOMBING

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Military & Defense

Method of bombing characterized by an aircraft releasing bombs at the end of a steep dive towards its objective. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Synonyms: DIVE BOMBING

Synonyms by domain: dive-bomb (military & defense), dive-bombing (military & defense).

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Modern Usage: DIVE BOMBING

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Movie/TV Titles

Dive Bombing (1943)

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Commercial Usage: DIVE BOMBING

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Books

  • Destined for Glory: Dive Bombing, Midway, and the Evolution of Carrier Airpower (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Photo Album: DIVE BOMBING

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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.

Portrait photograph, taken circa the early 1940s by Fuirukawa, Sasebo. Lt. Kobayashi was Hiryu bomber unit commander during the Battle of Midway and was killed in action leading the dive bombing attack on USS Yorktown (CV-5) on 4 June 1942. Credit: NAVY.

P-38 fighter-bombers, each carrying two 500 lb. bombs, taxiing out for take-off on a dive bombing mission [...] Belgium / p. Credit: Library of Congress; photo by lst Lt. Mike Cohen..

  

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

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Modern Translation: DIVE BOMBING

Language Translations for "DIVE BOMBING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

styrtbombning. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

duikbombardement. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

syöksypommitus. (various references)

   

French

  

bombardement en piqué. (various references)

   

German

  

Bombenangriff im Sturzflug. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

βομβαρδιστικό κάθετης εφόρμησης. (various references)

   

Italian

  

bombardamento in picchiata. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

急降下爆' . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

きゅう"うかばく'き. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iveday ombingbay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

bombardeamento a pique. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: DIVE BOMBING

Misspellings

"DIVE BOMBING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: divebombing. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: DIVE BOMBING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: divebombing.

Words within the letters "b-b-d-e-g-i-i-m-n-o-v"

-2 letters: demobbing.

-3 letters: divebomb.

-4 letters: bombing, demoing, dibbing, dominie, imbibed, mendigo, mobbing, voiding.

-5 letters: biding, binged, biogen, boding, bombed, bonged, bovine, dieing, divine, diving, dobbin, domine, doming, ebbing, emodin, gibbed, gibbon, gobbed, ibidem, imbibe, indigo, iodine, mobbed, monied, moving, nevoid, nibbed.

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

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INDEX

1. Synonyms
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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