The ninth bomber came out of a lightening sky at six o'clock exactly, and though she sat there for another hour, it was the last.''... and three of our aircraft have failed to return,'' the man who read the news would intone on the midday bulletin.
three aircraft mean twenty-one crew
Were they just words he was reading or did he realize that three aircraft meant twenty-one crew and countless women waiting anxiously for the phone call that would tell them their man was safe - or the letter that would tell them he was not?
The ninth bomber came out of a lightening sky at six o'clock exactly, and though she sat there for another hour, it was the last.''... and three of our aircraft have failed to return,'' the man who read the news would intone on the midday bulletin.</s>Were they just words he was reading or did he realize that three aircraft meant twenty-one crew and countless women waiting anxiously for the phone call that would tell them their man was safe - or the letter that would tell them he was not?</s>three aircraft mean twenty-one crew