IN THE AIR: Bomber Tactics

Big surprise to most of the world in the Nazi drive through the Lowlands and northern France was the terrible accuracy of German dive bombers. Except for the U. S. Naval Air Service (which originated dive bombing, still works hard and ably at it), few of the world's air forces had fully realized the sharpshooting possibilities of a heavy bomb projected straight & true from a diving airplane.

Last fortnight across the Atlantic came details of another brand of German attack from the air: high-altitude, level-flight bombing, which the U. S. Army...

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