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Video Thursday 2.17.11 Planes and Seacoast Mortars
Posted: Feb 17, 2011Today we start off with some classic rare video clips from the 1941 movie “Dive Bomber.” Stars Errol Flynn and Fred MacMurray were the main characters in the movie, which […]
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First dive bombing tests 1926
Posted: Dec 13, 2010The first dive bombing exercise by the United States Navy was reported on 13 December 1926 by Rear Admiral J. M. Reeves. The Boeing FB-5 and the Curtiss F6C were […]
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Japanese bomb and Ghost bomb strike Yorktown!!!
Posted: Mar 18, 2009Sixty four years ago on 18 March while conducting operations off Okinawa, the USS Yorktown (CV-10) was struck by a Japanese bomb at 1507 (3:07 PM) when a Judy dive […]