Meaning of helldiver | Babel Free

Definitions

Nickname given to several models of dive bomber produced by Curtiss during World War II.

Examples

“Every winter the birds went south. One time a helldiver volunteered to stay⟳ for the winter to take⟳ care of two birds, an injured whooping crane and a wounded mallard duck, both of whom had broken wings.”

“At dawn on the first day of April 1870, Cora Paint⟳ stood near one of her spindly and failing apple trees a hundred feet from the river, watching the rednecked helldivers above the falls soar and plummet into the Big Sioux after carp or perch.”

“Most cultures have⟳ a flood⟳ myth, and the Paiutes are not exception. Instead of a dove, however, it is the little helldiver that finds land⟳; and the land⟳ above the waters is not Mt. Ararat but Mt. Tom.”

“The Helldiver is another aircraft whose contribution to the final Allied victory is often underestimated.”

“The most numerous Allied dive-bomber of World War II, the Helldiver endured a prolonged gestation period to mature into one of the best aircraft of its type⟳.”

“Pilots who flew the new Helldivers thought highly of the plane, but its reputation of being a poor handling airplane was already set⟳ in the minds of naval aviators.”

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