Bourke-White flew with American bomber planes in England as they prepared to attack enemy targets on the European continent.
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Then,one night in July, Soviet officials announced that German bomber planes were flying toward Moscow.
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In fact, the Air Force has already begun testing a program to certify coal-based synthetic fuels for the B-52 bomber, a process that may lead to synthetic fuel use in all of its planes.
In theory, the Air Force has many hundreds of tactical aircraft like the F-15E fighter-bomber that might be used to prosecute an air campaign in the Western Pacific, but those planes have limited ranges and thus would be heavily dependent on aerial refueling.