Other accidents occurred when the aircraft was used in a role for which it was not suited, such as dive bombing.
Extensive minefields and heavy dive bombing kept the German tanks at bay.
Attention was also given to training of pilots and air crews in dive bombing and torpedo tactics.
Almost a century later it is probably neither possible nor profitable to establish who invented dive bombing.
The aircraft could also be fitted with air brakes for dive bombing.
It generally is considered the birth of modern dive bombing.
The success of dive bombing was due to two important circumstances:
It was used for the practice of dive bombing for carrier aircraft.
This had occurred when the aircraft were used in dive bombing.
One of the wing's P 51 groups also conducted experimental work in dive bombing.