The bombers can hold up to 40, 000 pounds of munitions and hit up to 16 different targets in one bombing run.

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In December 2001, a B-1 crashed while returning from a bombing run over Afghanistan to a British base on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia.

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Growing up as the son of a Connecticut Senator, he was the youngest pilot in the Navy in 1943, and an authentic, highly decorated hero who finished a bombing run after his plane was hit, already in flames, and about to crash.

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Argentine courts have blamed Iran for the bombing of the cultural centre run by the Israeli-Argentine Mutual Association (Amia), which killed 85 people.

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The 26-year-old was killed several days after the bombing following a shootout with police, when he was run over by his younger brother as he fled the scene in a vehicle, authorities have already said.

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