Lexicographical Neighbors of Strafers
Literary usage of Strafers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. General Kenney Reports: A Personal History of the Pacific War by George C. Kenney (1997)
"That target dried up quickly and by the first of August a group of strafers during
the daytime and a squadron of radar-equipped B-24S were sufficient to ..."
2. Fighting the Flying Circus by Eddie Rickenbacker (1919)
"Practically our whole Squadron left the aerodrome at three o'clock, Ham Coolidge
and Crocker who were selected as the two balloon strafers for the day ..."
3. Fighting the Flying Circus by Eddie Rickenbacker (1919)
"Practically our whole Squadron left the aerodrome at three o'clock, Ham Coolidge
and Crocker who were selected as the two balloon strafers for the day ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"With the two balloon strafers in the lead the entire force were to fly toward
the Dun- sur-Meuse gas bag, intent upon protecting Cool- idge and Chambers ..."
5. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1915)
"Lit Digest 51: 1237 N 27 '15 Routine of war. Lit Digest 51:868 O 15 '15 Scouting
on the strafers. Lit Digest 51:325 Ag 14 '15 Sketch of the Russian soldier. ..."
6. My Year of the Great War by Frederick Palmer (1915)
"When the Germans are not called Baches they are called strafers. "Won't you strafe
a little for us?" Tommy sings out to the German trenches when they are ..."
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