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THE BOMBERS: The first RAF bomber, the DeHaviland DH4 (1916), carried a total load of less than 500 lbs. of 25-lb. bombs under both wings, dropping them most inaccurately from very low levels. Yet it was a whispered prophecy. Twenty-eight years later the B-29 Superfortress (shown here with its smaller parent, the B-17 Flying Fortress), with its wingspread of 141 feet, its bomb-load measured in tons, its ocean-spanning range, and its pin-point accuracy which can select and destroy a single building from many thousand feet of altitude, fulfilled the prophecy which we of the Western Democracies had failed to heed until almost too late.