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Bomb beats F-47 to target by 200 yards.

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Approaching 47s clear sage by inches.

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Figuring air-to-ground gunnery score.

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Anxious pilots check sleeve hits, above, score-keeper adds total, below.
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After the meet a lone airman, standing ankle deep in a practice bomb "crater", inspects target that has withstood repeated dive-bombing attacks. Note the number of craters and twisted bomb fragments. Meet has served to standardize techniques.

F-80 of the 4th Fighter Group is nearly lost in dust of his own bullets as he pulls
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