The Pentagon has posted three Air Force pictures of a B-2 Sprit bomber squadron deployed in April to a remote airbase in Diego Garcia that shows one of the B-2s taking off “to conduct a combat mission,” along with two other images showing a B-2 and a KC-135 Stratotanker taking off on the same day.

“Six B-2s and approximately 250 personnel deployed from Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri as the 393d Expeditionary Bomb Squadron to conduct combat missions from Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory,” the caption for the photo of the KC-135 says. “The B-2s were supported by KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft and personnel assigned to the 92nd Air Refueling Wing from Fairchild AFB, Washington.”

The dates on the three photos match a day of particularly intense bombing in Yemen during a three-mo

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