Jack Gruber | Photojournalist

The 93rd Bomb Squardron B-52H numbered 61-0022 with nose are of a NYPD police shield and the words "11 Sep 01, NYPD, We Remember" was the first aircraft to drop weapons on Afghanistan during the war to displace the Taliban. The bomber banks into the sunset on a training mission after departing Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisianna in October 2002.

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