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A head-on view shows the radar-deflecting skin of the B-2. The black holes on either side of the cockpit are air intakes for the jet engines.

high-tech bombers performed well in tests, but had never flown in combat until that cold spring morning over the Balkans.

The crews of both planes were on edge as the bombers penetrat- ed enemy air space some 14 hours after leaving Missouri. “Early on, we weren’t sure what the enemy was capable of seeing or anything like that,” one of the pilots, Lt. Col. Terry Sunnarborg, later said in an interview.

At one point, Serbian fighter pilots battled American F-15s just below the B-2s.The enemy pilots had no idea the Stealth bombers