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Europe, but they forgot to put a roof on it. [ applause ] so we crushed them all from the air. 177 liber eighted bombers flu dangerously low through broad daylight without fighter protection to cripple the nazi war machine. more than 300 airman gave lives to destroy the enemy oil refineries. and five pilots were awarded the congressional medal of honor for in re actions in that single raid. it was airman chuck yaeger who first broke the sound barriers. it was airman like gus grissom and buzz ald...

>> we talk about this no-fly zone. that sounds like simple patrols going on. but in order to protect some of the planes in the air for the no-fly zone, are targets going to have to be taken out to fly those planes? >> thats correct. you saw the photo of the apparently rebel libyan aircraft getting shot down. theres a lot of surface-to-air capability. that would have to be suppressed. there would also have to be fighter protection for the overall effort so that the libyan air force either stays o...