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B B-17 “Flying Fortress.” See bombers; bombs; Combined Bomber Offensive B-24 “Liberator.” See bombers; Combined Bomber Offensive B-25 “Mitchell.” See bombers; Combined Bomber Offensive B-26 “Marauder.” See bombers B-29 “Superfortress.” See blockade; bombers; Japan; United States Army Air Forces BABI YAR (SEPTEMBER 29–30, 1941) An Einsatzgruppe of the Schutzstaffel (SS) murdered 33,771 people over two days and nights at Babi Yar ravine outside Kiev, September 29–30, 1941 Victims were ordered to strip, climb down into anti-tank ditches, and lie atop the bodies of those already dead or dying Then they, too, were shot Most of the victims were Jews from Kiev, but some were Red Army prisoners of war It was not just the SS who carried out the massacre Wehrmacht troops assisted in the round-up of Kiev’s Jews and helped transport them to the ravine See also Holocaust; Rassenkampf