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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.
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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.
The “Ghost Bomber of the Monongahela” is still missing, and the subject of plenty of conspiracy theories.
The aircraft was tested for almost two years, beginning in 1942; while the system proved extremely effective, no production models were built that used it before the end of World War II. Many surviving warbird-flown B-25 aircraft today use the de-icing system from the XB-25E (number made: 1, converted). ZXB-25E XB-25F-A
The crash of Beechcraft C-45F Expeditor 44-87142 of the 4000th AAF Base Unit, [316] two miles south of Windsor, Ontario, killed three officers and two enlisted men from the 4140th Base Unit at Wright Field in Ohio who had left the base at 18:05 on a flight to Selfridge Field in Michigan to prepare air shows throughout the country. The twin-prop ...
One eyewitness reported that one of the plane's two engines caught fire prior to impact. [1] Part of the fuselage was found 500 yards from the crash, and numerous small brush fires sprang up because of burning fuel that the impact scattered over a wide area. Investigators attributed the crash to engine failure caused by stormy weather.
Dr. James Bender, a former Army psychologist who spent a year in combat in Iraq with a cavalry brigade, saw many cases of moral injury among soldiers. Some, he said, “felt they didn’t perform the way they should. Bullets start flying and they duck and hide rather than returning fire – that happens a lot more than anyone cares to admit.”