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On July 28, 1945, a B-25 Mitchell bomber of the United States Army Air Forces crashed into the north side of the Empire State Building in New York City while flying in thick fog. The crash killed fourteen people (three crewmen and eleven people in the building), and an estimated twenty-four others were injured.
B-25. 40-2168 Miss Hap – based at the American Airpower Museum in Farmingdale, NY. This aircraft was the fourth off the North American production line in 1940 and was designated an RB-25 (the "R" indicating restricted from combat, not a reconnaissance aircraft) and was assigned to General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold in 1943 and 1944.
In September 1939, the Air Corps ordered the NA-62 into production as the B-25, along with the other new Air Corps medium bomber, the Martin B-26 Marauder "off the drawing board". North American B-25 Mitchell production in Kansas City in 1942. Early into B-25 production, NAA incorporated a significant redesign to the wing dihedral. The first ...
The “Ghost Bomber of the Monongahela” is still missing, and the subject of plenty of conspiracy theories.
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The crash occurred circa 4:45 p.m. in the woods at the Oaklands Cemetery, around one and a half miles north of West Chester, Pennsylvania. [1] [4] Two airmen bailed out, but they were too close to the ground for their parachutes to open fully. Rescuers found their bodies on a hill about 200 yards from the crash site. One was dangling from a tree.
While the film follows the fate of the six-man crew of a B-25 Mitchell bomber, Sole Survivor is loosely based on the 1958 discovery of the B-24 Liberator bomber Lady Be Good in the Libyan desert. The Lady Be Good and her nine-man crew had disappeared without a trace in 1943, following its first and only combat mission in World War II. The ...
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