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how bomber hats got their name
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it was he last name of the person who made it.
The dive bomber was the Junkers Ju 87; but the German for Dive Bomber is Sturzkampfflugzeug. Germans were very fond of their own type of acronym, using the first syllable of a word rather than its initial letter; thus, Geheim Staatspolizeibecomes Gestapo, and Sturzkampfflugzeug becomes Stuka.
It was the Flying Fortress, dubbed so by a Seattle journalist and later adopted as the official name.