skip bombing

The Americans, it turns out, have come up with something new, skip bombing.

He scored perfect scores in two of the meet's five events, skip bombing and rocketry.

Their main mission involved highly-dangerous skip bombings.

In addition, their bombays were filled with 500-pound bombs to be used in the newly devised practice of skip bombing.

Skip bombing carried several advantages.

During the next couple of weeks we continued to fly from the ship and enjoyed some new games like skip bombing and R.P.

During the bombing campaigns, he introduced low-level skip bombing and forward air control procedures long before they became common practices in other war theaters.

Holtville was used by the Navy to train pilots in skip bombing, night flying, and air-to-ground rocket firing.

Development of Skip Bombing.

Skip bombing was a new tactic adopted by the Fifth Air Force that enabled its bombers to attack ships at low level.

However, it still had its research triumphs, especially the development of a delay fuze for skip bombing and special bombs for dams and oil fields.

The unit experimented with low level skip bombing, using this tactic at the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, 2-4 March 1943 with some success.

In February 1942, the RAAF began experimenting with skip bombing, an anti-shipping technique used by the British and Germans.

The USAAF eventually replaced all of their anti-shipping B-17s with other aircraft, and came to use the skip bombing technique in direct low-level attacks.

Using similar mast height level tactics and skip bombing, the B-25 proved itself to be a capable anti-shipping weapon and sank many enemy sea vessels of various types.

Skip bombing is additionally carried out at high speeds, increasing bombers' chances of surviving anti-aircraft fire as aerial torpedoes of the era were dropped at relatively low speeds.

Upon his return from England, General Arnold charged developmental teams at Eglin Army Airfield, Florida with the task of creating an American version of skip bombing.

After the arguments over bombing tactics with Walker, Kenney was pleased that Ramey liked the skip bombing tactics the Fifth Air Force was developing.

Skip bombing was a low-level bombing technique independently developed by several of the combatant nations in World War II, notably Britain, Australia and the United States.

P-47 pilots frequently carried two 500 lb (227 kg) bombs, using skip bombing techniques for difficult targets (skipping bombs into railroad tunnels to destroy hidden enemy trains was a favorite tactic).

The main drawback of skip bombing was that it took a great deal of skill to perfect; sometimes the bombs would detonate too soon, or in some cases, sink too deep before its delay-fuzed explosion.

Three ranges were designated, the Practice Bombing Range, a land range, the Skip Bombing Range, and a Potential 3rd Target Range to the north which was apparently not used.

With the continuing success against shipping in Rabaul Harbor throughout October and November of 1942, both the tactic and the term 'skip bombing' had become popular in the Fifth Army Air Force.

Cenni was once again confirmed to be a pilot with excellent flying skills, so much so that he developed a technique of dive bombing called "skip bombing", ending with a short dive in level flight.

Pilots in the Pacific later developed a technique of skip bombing which required flying at low level and dropping a spherically-nosed conventional bomb onto the sea, at a shallow angle, which then bounced back into the air.