your object to knock out the luftwafa. we invade the continent.e don't want any enemy planes in the air. >> so is bombers were basically bait at that phase of the war. >> they routed us through fighter areas where we would bring up fighter planes. >> the boys inside the bombers had to endure the harsh conditions inside their planes. >> what was the airplane like? >> those planes were not heated. the temperature inside would be around 45 or 50 degrees below 0. we were on oxygen from 10,000 feet to on up so you had these sheep lined helmets with goggles and then the oxygen mask right up under the goggles and then solid sheep skin lined shoes and flack vests and all the rest. >> the luftwafa fighters not the only problem for the bomber boys. thousands of fragments of anti-aircraft fire called flack. >> little pellets flying all around. little pieces of the shell and you look and see black puffs here and all over the place. >> flack scatter usually at the coast and the vicious kind. it was called tracking flack. and usually manned by german troops. an