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Throw off
Throw off verb - To draw the attention or mind to something else.
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- Saburo Sakai, one of the most successful Japanese aces of WW II, mentioned in his memoirs that several pilots of Allied P-39 Airacobras attempted to throw off pursuit (by him or his comrades) with this trick during air combats over the mountains of New Guinea, only to kill themselves in crashes.
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