Prologue from
Answers.com:
bombardier
The member of a
combat aircraft crew who
operates the bombsight
and drops the bombs.
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The Associated Press
On this date…
in 1945, during World War II,
Allied planes began bombing
the German city of Dresden.
For the rest of the story,
see Kurt Vonnegut
and Robert Frost.