1.   Two heavy bombers moved across the sky at about ten thousand feet.

2.   Few bomber crews -- if in fact any -- exceeded this total, and certainly not in heavy bombers.

3.   Below, the crowd breaks into wild yet inaudible cheers as a flight of heavy bombers thunders overhead at rooftop level.

4.   According to the Associated Press, it is the worst U.S. heavy bomber loss since April.

5.   Eight heavy bombers pounded garrision, airfields and air defneses.

6.   Heavy bombers flew from as far away as Missouri.

7.   Heavy bombers started gathering at Saipan, Tinian and Okinawa.

8.   In Iraq, US forces dropped leaflets along the front lines warning soldiers that heavy bombers were on the way.

9.   Nevertheless, the United States continued to send more jet fighters, heavy bombers, ships and ground forces to the Persian Gulf region.

10.   Shrader said the closest historic parallel to the tragedy on Wednesday was a friendly fire accident involving heavy bombers during the battle for Normandy in World War II.