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Barreling nearly straight down from the sky

The first planes of the mass onslaught were the fighters and dive-bombers

And then a new sound gradually droned into our ears

A sound deep - all encompassing, with no notes in it

Just a gigantic faraway surge of doom-like sound

It was the heavies, coming on with a terrible slowness in flights of twelve

Three flights to a group - in groups stretched out across the sky

I thought it would never end

...And then the bombs came