This was the French army's main night bomber in 1916-1917, with over one thousand built.
One of his first goals was to secure the contract to design a twin-engine night bomber for the Army.
The undersides of night bombers and night fighters were often painted black.
While the night bombers were inaccurate, they ran little risk of interception by fighters.
A number of modern types are designed primarily for night-time bombing, but air forces no longer refer to them as night bombers.
Instead, she was made a night bomber, and there was no appeal.
Off the tail, three miles behind Vera's bent head, the second flight of night bombers was over the target.
Other enemy aircraft encountered and shot down included Do 217 night bombers engaged in mine laying missions.
Seven German night bombers came over and have completely destroyed the field.
Later many were used as night bombers, to avoid losses in encounters with fighters.