Heading toward Le Havre, the bombers descended to 500 feet to give the airmen a close-up view of some of the cities they had wrecked. “I grabbed a spot near one of the waist windows so I could see Germany once more from the air,” recalled Oscar Richard. Passing over the corpse of a German city, Richard remarked to the men sitting next to him, “That could be us. That could be America. Nobody said we had to win this war.”
