Two KC-135 “Stratotanker” Aerial-Refueling Tankers with the U.S. Air Force have departed Kadena Air Base in Okinawa and are heading southwest, preparing to refuel two B-52H “Stratofortress” Long-Range Strategic Bombers that left Andersen Air Force Base in Guam tonight for a “show of force” directed at China near Taiwan. This is the second such mission by the B-52s forward deployed to Guam since the beginning of February.