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The Rüsselsheim massacre was a war crime that involved the lynching and killing of six American airmen by townspeople of Rüsselsheim during World War II.. The incident happened on August 26, 1944, two days after a Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber of the United States Army Air Forces was shot down by heavy anti-aircraft fire over Hanover.
North American A-36 Invader/Apache - Dive bomber/attack aircraft; North American B-25 Mitchell - Medium bomber; North American XB-28 - Prototype medium bomber; North American BT-9 - Basic trainer; North American BT-14 - Basic trainer; North American BC-1 - Basic combat trainer; North American AT-6 Texan - Advanced trainer; North American O-47 ...
A study by Robert J. Lilly estimates that a total of 14,000 civilian women in England, France and Germany were raped by American GIs during World War II. [ 86 ] [ 87 ] It is estimated that there were around 3,500 rapes by American servicemen in France between June 1944 and the end of the war and one historian has claimed that sexual violence ...
The Douglas A-20 Havoc (company designation DB-7) is an American light bomber, attack aircraft, night intruder, night fighter, and reconnaissance aircraft of World War II. Designed to meet an Army Air Corps requirement for a bomber, it was ordered by France for their air force before the USAAC decided it would also meet their requirements.
The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress is an American four-engined heavy bomber aircraft developed in the 1930s for the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC). A fast and high-flying bomber, the B-17 was used primarily in the European Theater of Operations and dropped more bombs than any other aircraft during World War II.
Martin XB-51 attack bomber: 1949: retired prototype: 2: 4,700: McDonnell Douglas A-12 Avenger II attack aircraft: n/a: abandoned 1983 project: 0: 2,300: McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II attack aircraft: 1978: operational: 323: 4,200: McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II fighter-bomber: 1958: retired 2016: 5,195 [notes 2] 8,500: McDonnell Douglas ...
This section includes war crimes which were committed from 7 December 1941 when the United States was attacked by Imperial Japan and entered World War II. For war crimes which were committed before this date, specifically for war crimes which were committed during the Second Sino-Japanese War , please see the section above which is titled 1937 ...
The Lockheed Corporation designed the P-38 in response to a February 1937 specification from the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC). Circular Proposal X-608 was a set of aircraft performance goals authored by First Lieutenants Benjamin S. Kelsey and Gordon P. Saville for a twin-engined, high-altitude "interceptor" having "the tactical mission of interception and attack of hostile aircraft at ...