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A.A.F., which had to get planes from the U.S. Navy when it took up dive-bombing, discontinued the dive-bomber type, even washed out a converted fighter which had been equipped with diving brakes to make an excellent single-seater dive-bomber...
...Navy will stick to the dive-bomber, which has unquestionably been its most potent air weapon. Its contention: the dive-bomber can dive steeply, even vertically against a target, thus has tremendous accuracy; the fighter bomber has to go in at a shallower angle, thus must allow for a looping trajectory in the fall of the bomb. The pilot must also drop his bomb and pull out at higher altitudes to keep from hitting the ground, or water, or risk pulling his plane apart in a violent recovery. The next twelve months should show which service is right...
...fighters in World War II, has proven a sensation. One of the fastest of pursuits at high altitudes, it can also lug bombs on low-altitude missions, fight its way out when bombs are dropped. Long-ranged and heavily armed, it can do almost anything a medium bomber can do, is one of the world's best and most versatile aircraft...
Thunderbolt (Republic P-47). First fought in the European Theater only a few months ago on a large scale, the turbosupercharged P47 is a hard-hitting, high-altitude specialist. Heavy as the familiar Ford trimotor, it has been used almost exclusively as a long-range bomber escort (as at Emden). Bombers run into comparatively little trouble when P-475 are escorting. The P-475 themselves, against German fighters, knocked down 5.8 German aircraft to every P47 that was lost in one recent month. Its overall ratio, from a fairly unimpressive start...
Dauntless (Douglas SBD). This is the Navy's one dive-bomber in wide service up to now. Outdated by later design as of Pearl Harbor, it was still all the Navy had, was still better than anything the enemy could show. Result: a spectacular record of destruction of enemy craft at Midway, the Coral Sea and in all the actions in the South Pacific...