And if they couldn't take the city, what else could they do?
*****
"All right men, let's get airborne! We have some ordnance to drop on the enemy!"
Dustin's voice roared down the line as he grabbed his flight helmet and prepared to jump into the cockpit of his warplane. The four men making the flight with him did the same and soon the noise of five engines filled the makeshift airfield.
Dustin eyed the runway and hoped they had enough room to take off. It wasn't any shorter than it needed to be, but Dustin now had several hundred pounds of bombs strapped to his wings, and the added weight was liable to need more runway to get airborne.
With a few encouraging words, his warplane soon took off at full speed down the runway while Dustin pulled back gently on the stick. Much to his satisf
