Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ship was gently pitching when we made the landfall on Japan. We hooked on our flak suits, adjusted our helmets and got into position for the bomb-run. Pilot Root increased the tempo of his gum-chewing. The copilot settled himself solidly in his seat, the engineer edged forward, his eyes glued to the instruments. The navigator, Lieut. James Stanley, checked and rechecked our position...
...stood weighted down with equipment behind the flight deck, where I could see scores of searchlights spotting other aircraft over the target and see the red glare of ack-ack bursting both high and low. Root checked each station on the ship with a "You all right...
...Here We Go!" "You're on course, Captain." Stanley said. Our course lay right into the center of six converging searchlights. By now we could both hear and feel puffs of ack-ack. Root ordered the bomb-bay doors opened, gripped the wheel tighter and said: "Here we go, fellows." He pointed the nose right into the midst of the fiercest glare of lights, the worst bursts...
...Root spoke to the bombardier, Lieut. Charles M. Albright...
...Bombs Away!" Then Root nosed the ship down slightly as thousands of pounds of bombs shot down onto Yawata. Root made a steep left turn. Through the copilot's windows I could see another Superfortress on the bomb-run below us; there was another overhead. Then there was a brilliant flash below...