"We must have smashed at least half of them," Stan answered. "But the part that interested me most was the underground hangars. The screen is only a temporary camouflage. The planes are snapped back into the underground hangar. I say we got about half of them, because the wrecked ones were still out under the screen. The others had been pulled back."
"We can bomb those hangars out," the colonel said.
"I don't think so," Stan said. "I judge there's a full forty feet of earth over them as a roof, and I suppose there's at least ten feet of concrete under that."
"That would make them safe. Have any any ideas for handling them?" General Ward bent forward eagerly.
"Yes," Stan replied. "We could skip-bomb them."
"Skip-bomb?" Major Kulp asked.
"Bounce our bombs right into the open end of the hangar," Stan said, grinning.
"It might work," Colonel Holt said.
"The P-51's carry bombs, and I'm sure the boys could rig them so that we could fly at the right angle to bounce them into the hangars. If we went across once, they'd have the ships pulled back in and we'd get most of them."
"We'll try it," the general said. "Wilson, you will have charge of the flight."