DIVE-BOMBING TACTICS
TRAINING FOR AUSTRALIAN PILOTS (N.Z.P.A. Special Aust. Correspondent) (Rec. 11 p.m.) SYDNEY, Jan. 26. R.A.A.F. pilots are being instructed in dive-bombing tactics at the largest instruction school of its kind in the South Pacific. The students are all experienced flyers, who have been specially selected to master the technique of this most exacting of all flying operations.’ Australian-built Wirraways are proving well suited for dive-bombing. As each contingent completes its training the instructors and trainees are posted together to an operational station, and experienced dive-bomber pilots are recalled from forward areas to take charge of the succeeding groups of trainees. Since dive-bombing is designed essentially for offensive warfare, the news of the expansion of this arm of the R.A.A.F. points to a quickening of the Allied air offensive north of Australia. Dive-bombing is the most accurate form of aerial bombardment, and is particularly effective against shipping and fixed land defences.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25134, 27 January 1943, Page 3
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