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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Squadron emblems of the United States Air Force. This is a list of United States Air Force Bomb Squadrons. It covers all squadrons that were constituted or redesignated as bombardment squadron sometime during their active service. Today Bomb Squadrons are considered to be part of the Combat Air Force (CAF) along with fighter squadrons. Units in this list ...
A U.S. Air Force Douglas C-124C Globemaster II, 52-968, of the 28th Air Transport Squadron, [180] en route from Tachikawa Air Force Base near Tokyo, Japan, to Hickam Air Force Base, Honolulu, Hawaii with nine on board and 11 tons of cargo, disappears over the Pacific Ocean after making a fuel stop at Wake Island. Due at Hickam at 0539 hrs.
The Air Force said the pilot, Col. Arthur R. DeBolt, 39, of Columbus, O., apparently mistook the B-17 "mother" plane for an uninhabited radio controlled drone which it was guiding. Col. DeBolt described by the Air Force in Washington as "an exceptional officer," was grief stricken at the error, and said he was unable to explain it.
Royal Air Force (RAF) Bomber Command and the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) Eighth Air Force: Firestorm. See: Bombing of Dresden in World War II. Pforzheim: Germany: 23 February 1945 17,600 Royal Air Force (RAF) Bomber Command: Firestorm. See: Bombing of Pforzheim in World War II. The Hague: Netherlands: 3 March 1945 551 Royal Air Force ...
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.
A Mark 6 nuclear bomb, similar to the one dropped in the incident, at the National Museum of the United States Air Force.. On March 11, 1958, a U.S. Air Force Boeing B-47E-LM Stratojet from Hunter Air Force Base operated by the 375th Bombardment Squadron of the 308th Bombardment Wing near Savannah, Georgia, took off at approximately 4:34 PM and was scheduled to fly to the United Kingdom and ...
The 856th Bomb Squadron, after completing the personnel recovery mission, resumed Carpetbagger operations on a limited basis during the bad weather of the winter of 1945, while the remaining two squadrons (the 857th and 858th) participated in medium altitude bombing from late December 1944 through March 1945.
All six of the members killed were of American nationality.. 2015-12-21, Special Agent Adrianna M. Vorderbruggen[897], U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations, US Bomb