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Stevekane42 t1_jdvgzjh wrote

Reply to comment by ChipmunkFood in Flying through Philadelphia - 1945 by hiding_in_the_corner

I wonder when dive bombing started to phase out. Also pretty wild to see a bombing plane at all flying over philly

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ChipmunkFood t1_je1osix wrote

I think with more accurate bombing techniques/bombsights it went away.
However a bombing plane over Philly is really no different than one of those military plane flyovers during big events. The only difference is that the new military planes could do much, much, much more damage than a dive bomber,

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