They were heavy bombers, flying north, at not more than three or four thousand feet.
From then on, British bombers would fly mainly at night.
The bombers flew over at the same time and were recorded by accident.
He remembered sitting on a wall with a cousin, watching the first German bombers fly over.
Land-based bombers could only fly a few hours at a time, then had to return to their bases.
About 127 fighters and bombers flew in the campaign, dropping around 1,680 bombs each day.
The bombers would fly the route until December 1941.
No bomber flew into a hillside near a target on the actual raid.
The next morning they saw twenty-seven Japanese bombers flying south to attack the convoy.
The bombers have never flown in a combat mission.