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n. (plural of bomber English)
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"Bombers" is a song written by David Bowie. It was recorded in July 1971 and intended for the album Hunky Dory, but was replaced at the last minute by the cover "Fill Your Heart".
It was released as a promo single by RCA in the US in November 1971, backed by a remix of " Eight Line Poem" that can only be found on this single (both tracks also were issued on an extremely limited edition promotional LP by RCA/Gem). A bootleg version backing "London Bye Ta-Ta" was also released in the early 1970s. The track was eventually given wide release as a bonus track on the Rykodisc reissue of Hunky Dory in 1990.
"Bombers" is the second single by Tubeway Army, released in 1978. The song is in a somewhat more conventional rock style than their punk-oriented debut, " That's Too Bad", and features sound effects simulating air raid sirens, dive bombers, and machine gun fire. Like its predecessor, the single earned indifferent reviews and failed to chart. It is one of the few recordings in his career which Numan did not produce himself.
Though their musical styles differ, the song's subject matter is generally seen as a thinly disguised rewrite of David Bowie's " Five Years", the opening track of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972). Both songs feature detached observations of urban panic caused by impending catastrophe. "Bombers" (which has nothing to do with another Bowie track of the same name) is sung from the perspective of both a witness on the ground ("Look up, I hear the scream of sirens on the wall") and the bomber pilot ("And me I know just where you are, you see I'm a bomber man").
The B-sides were "Blue Eyes", which harked back to the fast-paced punk style of "That's Too Bad", and "O.D. Receiver", a slower piece whose lyrics reflected a Burroughsian world of drug addiction. All tracks on the original vinyl single were credited to 'Valerian', the name that Numan (born Gary Webb) had chosen for himself prior to Tubeway Army's début album; these would be his last releases using that nom de plume; henceforward he would call himself Gary Numan.
"Bombers" was also later released as a gatefold with the single "That's Too Bad"
Usage examples of "bombers".
American fighters and bombers crashed over friendly territory and, more often, over enemy territory.
Helped by heavy artillery and air support, including unusually close strikes by B-52 bombers, the American forces inflicted heavy casualties on its well-trained enemy.
Sliz helped operate secret Lima Site 85 in northern Laos, where he guided F-4 and F-105 fighter bombers with ground-controlled radar bombing assistance on targets in North Vietnam.
So here we are with the technology of supersonic fighter bombers that were unable to accomplish the mission.
FACs were the go between for the fighter bombers and the army on the ground.
I had given the heading to the fighter bombers and they were streaking in at 420 knots probably at about 150 feet over the tops of the trees.
I gave the fighter bombers their bomb damage assessment and they went back.
Then the mustangs and bombers moved on together, like a single storm, distance muting the sound, and nothing could be seen except a flash that resembled an occasional faraway stroke of lightning.
Widespread use of dirigible bombers, firestorms and poison-gas bombardments.
Drakajet bombers deliver five-weapon nuclear strike against Ruhr valley, Brussels.
Heavier-than-air planes were developed primarily to destroy dirigible bombers, and did so very effectively.
In the last five months of 1947, 74,000 tons of military equipment were sent by the United States to the right-wing government in Athens, including artillery, dive bombers, and stocks of napalm.
United States had more than 50 intercontinental ballistic missiles, 80 missiles on nuclear submarines, 90 missiles on stations overseas, 1,700 bombers capable of reaching the Soviet Union, 300 fighter-bombers on aircraft carriers, able to carry atomic weapons, and 1,000 land-based supersonic fighters able to carry atomic bombs.
Communists withdrew from Quangngai last Monday, United States jet bombers pounded the hills into which they were headed.
United States had crossed half the globe with an enormous fleet of bombers and 2 million soldiers, and after eight years left a tiny nation with over a million dead and its land in ruins, this was an astounding statement.