Men of Courage

The correct answer is D. Any movement of the airplane at this time will adversely affect where the bombs land. Everyone is afraid of getting hit by flak and everyone would love to take evasive action but this is a time to suck it up and be a hero. You flew all this way, and faced all those dangers to drop your bombs accurately, so you can't chicken out now.

While you were completing your Operational Training, here were the war headlines:

May 13th: All Axis forces surrender in North Africa

The German and Italian forces in North Africa are sandwiched between the Britsh 8th Army to the east and the British-American 1st Army to the west. Over 300,000 men of the German Afrika Corps and the Italian 1st Army are trapped at Tunis and forced to surrender. This is the first major victory for the Western Allies.