bomb run

American  

Or bombing run

noun

1. the part of a bombing mission between the sighting of the target or its identification by electronic instruments and the release of the bombs.

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Etymology

Origin of bomb run

First recorded in 1940–45

Example Sentences

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bomb run

“That particular day … the fighters that were to meet us before the bomb run didn’t get there,” Sedgeley said.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 18, 2021

With just enough fuel left for a single bomb run, the navigator, Captain James F. Van Pelt Jr. of Oak Hill, W. Va., hit Nagasaki exactly "on the nose."

From Time Magazine Archive

In order to hit a target in your bomb run, you have to fly a straight course, and you usually try to bomb on the length of the bridge and not crossways.

From Time Magazine Archive

The setting sun bathed the clouds in orange as the pilot, Major John Thigpen, 38, of Windsor, N.C., banked his B-52 into the bomb run.

From Time Magazine Archive

At two forty-five on the morning of August 5, Alvarez climbed into the Great Artiste, the B-29 accompanying Tibbets’s Enola Gay on the bomb run.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik