Sentence examples for bomber unit from inspiring English sources

In the second world war he enlisted in the Army Air Corps and served as radio cryptographer in a heavy bomber unit in Europe.

Mr. Peck returned to form as a journalist battling anti-Semitism in "Gentleman's Agreement" (1947) and as a commanding officer of a bomber unit in "Twelve O'Clock High" (1949).

Kaplan sails across the Pacific on a Navy destroyer, flies to Thailand with an Air Force bomber unit for a joint exercise and sweats in the mountains of Central Asia with a team training a battalion of Nepalese Army Rangers.

After three years in the Air Force as an information officer with a NATO tactical bomber unit in Britain, Mr. Houston received a master's degree in American literature at Stanford University in 1962.

No. 44 (Rhodesia) Squadron, based in Lincolnshire on the east coast, was a heavy bomber unit, and part of No. 5 Group in RAF Bomber Command's front line.

Reduced to cadre once more after the war ended, No. 1 Squadron was re-established at Amberley in 1948 as an Avro Lincoln heavy bomber unit.

Galland had reported to Hitler that enemy fighter planes were already escorting bomber squadrons as far as Liege and that it was to be expected that in the future the bomber units would travel still farther from their bases escorted by fighters.

Bomber units adapted their Tu-95s to carry long-range cruise missiles – the Bear's ability to carry such a heavy payload making it well-suited to this role.

Little communication was enabled between fighter and bomber units, but also between the strike units themselves.

Additional night-fighter units (Nachtjagdgeschwader) and medium bomber units (Kampfgeschwader) acted as pathfinders.

In Bf 110 units, it fell to just 46%, and in bomber units it dropped to 59%.