Serial Number Little Bombers Returns
Genciana Haggins
Little Bombers Returns is a remake of the famous Dyna Blaster/BomberMan games. You play from one up to four of little bombers trapped in mysterious castle. These bombers can drop bombs to explode enemies and bricks. Your purpose is to destroy all monsters on the stages and leave castle. There are 8 stages by 8 levels. Good luck!
This modern remake of the classic game is fast, engaging and explosive adventure for every arcade-games lover! The Little Bombers Return to destroy all the dangerous monsters and enemies, and you are to help them. Are you a brilliant bomberman? Play as two little bombers at the same time!
Spearheading the American effort was the Eighth US Air Force flying out of bases in the East Anglia region of England. Initial operations were against targets in France and slowly extended to the Low Countries and Greater Germany. Initially hitting targets such as German U-boat pens on the coast of France along with ports and airfields, the USAAF bomber crews received their baptism of fire. However, as the Americans flew combat operations, they began to see faults in their prewar doctrine. One of the these was a failure to appreciate IAD effectiveness, which became apparent when the loss of bombers and crews started to climb. In late 1943, the average life expectancy of a B-17 was a mere 11 missions; a similar statistic applied to the crews themselves. With the fierce enemy fighter threat growing in the first half of 1943, American P-47 Thunderbolts and Royal Air Force Spitfires provided only short-range escort: When these fighters reached their operational range near the western border of Germany, they peeled off and returned to base. After their departure, the American bombers were then at the mercy of the German Luftwaffe.
P-47 escort ranges during the initial phases of the Eighth US Air Force strategic bombing campaign. Allied fighters could only provide limited coverage during these early raids. When the fighters reached their operational range and returned to base, the bombers were on their own. (USAF Graphic)
Ninety-six planes from the 3rd Air Division struck the Marienburg target and successfully hit the aircraft plant from a medium altitude of 13,000 feet. Losing only two aircraft, the bombers placed 83 percent of their bombs within 2,000 ft of the aim point. However, the 1st Air Division raids over Gdynia and Danzig were much less effective as German smokescreens thwarted aiming efforts. During these missions against the two cities, the division lost eight bombers for relatively little gain. In all, the raids of October 9 resulted in the loss of some 30 planes (approximately 9 percent of those sortied), with heavy damage inflicted on dozens more. More losses were yet to come.
Lieutenant Robert Rosenthal flew a B-17 christened Royal Flush over Munster on October 9. It was the only bomber of the 100th Bomb Group to survive the raid. Rosenthal eventually flew 52 missions, becoming one of the most decorated pilots in the Eighth Air Force. (Wikimedia Commons)
Despite the carnage of the 10th, four days later, the Eighth Air Force attacked the German ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt. Targeted earlier in August with mixed results, a second raid was set for October 14 by 291 B-17s launched in two separate waves. One hundred and forty-nine bombers came from the 1st Air Division with 142 more from the 3rd. The two units flew line-abreast approximately 30 miles apart into central Germany. With fighter escort up to the city of Aachen, the mission proceeded unmolested until the P-47s peeled away for home. German radar had picked up the formation as they formed over England and tracked them enroute. After the protective escort was gone, the Luftwaffe quickly pounced. Using the same tactics as before, heavy cannons, machine guns, and rockets from pairs of German fighters assaulted the bombers. Wave after wave of fighters targeted the lead bombers to disrupt the larger formation. As planes fell out of formation, crewmen claimed they could mark their trek from the smoke billowing from downed B-17s.
By the time the 40th Bomb Group reached the target, it had already lost seven of its 49 planes with others seriously damaged. The number lost climbed to 29. Despite the beating they had taken, 228 B-17s made it to the target and dropped their bombs accurately. Of the 1,122 high-explosive bombs dropped, 143 fell within the factory area, hitting 88 standing structures. Despite the mauling, the 40th placed 53 percent of their bombs within 1,000 feet of the aim point. While accurate, the price was steep. In all, the Eighth Air Force lost 60 B-17s out of a force of 229, with five more crash landing in England. Twelve more bombers sustained major damage and had to be written off, with another 121 requiring further repair. More than 600 men were missing or dead with another 43 wounded. While air planners expected a 10 percent loss rate for the mission, the actual figure was double that. Given those losses, it was time to take stock. Despite the accurate drops, one thing had become abundantly clear: deep penetrations into Germany without fighter escort were unfeasible.
However, unbeknownst to most of the men, help was on the horizon. In December 1943, the first P-51 Mustang unit arrived at Boxted, England, with more to follow. Capable of operating deep into occupied territory, heavily armed, and extremely maneuverable, the new fighter was a game-changer. As the P-51 arrived in theater, the Eighth Air Force also received a new commander. In January 1944, Lieutenant General Jimmy Doolittle, who led the 1942 raid on Tokyo, took charge and changed the very nature of the air war. Leveraging the new airframe, he also updated fighter tactics, and over the next few months eventually turned the tide of air war.
At this free daylong public symposium, guests heard from leading historians on the challenges, battles, and victories that followed the June 6 Allied landings and made the liberation of Europe from Nazi oppression possible.
The April 18, 1942, Doolittle Raid on Japan early in World War II bolstered American spirits just months after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and the loss of the U.S. territories of Guam and the Philippines.
The Army Air Force's North American B-25B Mitchell was selected as the best bomber available that could take off from an aircraft carrier. The commander of the raid, Army Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle, planned to fly his squadron from a carrier to the Soviet city of Vladivostok after the bombing run.
But they would not return to the carrier. B-25B tests showed that it had difficulty landing on the deck of a carrier, as it was meant to be a land-based runway aircraft. Also, the carrier group could get out of harm's way quickly enough, as enemy planes and ships were anticipating such an attack and had positioned vessels at sea to spot U.S. warships. The bombers also lacked radar.
To get within range of Japan, the plan was to sail the carrier USS Hornet within 400 miles of mainland Japan, launch the 16 aircraft with a crew of 80 airmen and quickly sail out of harm's way, along with the carrier Enterprise; a cruiser; eight destroyers and two oilers.
However, when the task force was 750 miles from Japan, they were spotted by a Japanese patrol vessel, which the cruiser USS Nashville, promptly sank. However, the patrol vessel had time to radio a warning to the Japanese military, so the decision was made to launch the 16 B-25B's immediately and get out of the area as quickly as possible.
In total, three crew members were killed in action. Another three were executed by the Japanese, and one died in captivity. This was considered a relatively low fatality rate for such a risky mission.
One of those who was captured by the Japanese, Army 2nd Lt. George Barr, was treated horribly while in custody, and at one point was near death. After the war and after recovery, he returned to Japan as a missionary, serving there for 30 years.
The Doolittle Raid, also known as Doolittle's Raid, as well as the Tokyo Raid, was an air raid on 18 April 1942 by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on Honshu during World War II. It was the first American air operation to strike the Japanese archipelago. Although the raid caused comparatively minor damage, it demonstrated that the Japanese mainland was vulnerable to American air attacks. It served as an initial retaliation for the December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, and provided an important boost to American morale. The raid was named after Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle, who planned and led the attack. It was one of six American carrier raids against Japan and Japanese-held territories conducted in the first half of 1942.
Under the final plan, 16 B-25B Mitchell medium bombers, each with a crew of five, were launched from the US Navy aircraft carrier USS Hornet, in the Pacific Ocean. There were no fighter escorts. After bombing the military and industrial targets, the crews were to continue westward to land in China.
Of the 16 crews involved, 14 returned to the United States or reached the safety of American forces, though one man was killed while bailing out.[5][6] Eight men were captured by Japanese forces in eastern China (the other two crew members having drowned in the sea), and three of these were later executed. All but one of the B-25s were destroyed in crashes, while the 16th landed at Vladivostok in the Soviet Union.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke to the Joint Chiefs of Staff in a meeting at the White House on 21 December 1941 and said that Japan should be bombed as soon as possible to boost public morale after Pearl Harbor.[8] Doolittle recounted in his autobiography that the raid was intended to bolster American morale and to cause the Japanese to begin doubting their leadership: "An attack on the Japanese homeland would cause confusion in the minds of the Japanese people and sow doubt about the reliability of their leaders. ... Americans badly needed a morale boost."[9]
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