Sentence examples for bomber stream from inspiring English sources

It was not relevant to the statistics on collisions between heavy bombers in the bomber stream.

But the crews tried to keep out of the bomber stream, because they were more afraid of collisions than of fighters.

Since they could no longer track individual bombers with radar, they guided their fighters into the bomber stream and let them find their own targets.

Even if we squeezed the bomber stream to the highest possible density, collisions would not be the main cause of losses.

Second, the repeated attacks along the same routes allowed the German fighters to find the bomber stream earlier and kill bombers more efficiently.

He thought a bomber's chance of being shot down by a fighter was far greater than its chance of colliding with another bomber, even in the densest part of the bomber stream.

These numbers referred to major operations over Germany with high-density bomber streams, in which about 60,000 sorties had been flown at the time I did the calculation.

Damaged stragglers lagged behind the main bomber streams and were easy prey for RAF fighters if they could be found.

He was based back near his original airfields on the North Sea coast, his unit the first line of defense against the bomber streams and their fighter escorts.

For Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe Hermann Göring it was an ongoing concern that inadequate numbers of fighters were able to continually engage the bomber streams.

From late 1942 onwards, the increasing USAAF bomber offensive now brought JG 1 to the forefront of the Defence of the Reich, operating at high altitudes against the American bomber streams of the 8th Air Force.