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Oklahoma City during World War II. USS Oklahoma City (CL-91) stern with SC Seahawks c. 1945 USS Oklahoma City (CL-91) at sea c. 1945. Following shakedown, Oklahoma City transited the Panama Canal and reported to Commander Cruisers Pacific Fleet (ComCruPac) for duty, arriving at Pearl Harbor on 2 May 1945.
Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was named in his honor on 14 October 1942. [7] 1 July 1942 Consolidated LB-30 Liberator II, AL527, of the 38th Bomb Squadron, 30th Bomb Group, flown by 1st Lt. Robert K. Murphy [citation needed] departed March Field, California, and struck the top of a low knoll two miles (3.2 km) west of the ...
Ref The World War II Heritage of Ladd Field, CEMML, Colorado State University- Chapter 4.0 Cold Weather Test – p. 22; "One of the B-17s was lost in a February crash that took the lives of the eight men on board. They had been en route to Wright Field via Sacramento, carrying records and reports of the station.
At an altitude of 20,000 feet, this was the highest fatal World War II training accident in Nebraska. One bomber crashed in the adjoining farm fields of Frank Hromadka Sr. and Anna Matejka, 2 miles N and ½ mile E of Milligan, Nebraska. The other crashed in the farmyard of Mike and Fred Stech, 3 miles N and 2 miles E of Milligan.
The remains of the century-old Navy destroyer USS Stewart were found some 3,500 feet deep on the ocean floor in the Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary – about 50 miles from San Francisco ...
The AT6 Monument is a granite memorial to Royal Air Force cadets who were killed while on a training flight during World War II. It stands on Big Mountain, north of Moyers, Oklahoma, in the United States, and was dedicated on February 20, 2000—the 57th anniversary of the deadly crashes.
The wreck of one of the most storied US Navy submarines of World War II has been found in the South China Sea eight decades after its last patrol, the Navy’s History and Heritage Command said ...
The wreckage of a Second World War US Navy destroyer known as the “Ghost Ship of the Pacific” has been discovered off the coast of California almost eight decades after it sank.. Ocean ...