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2. Virginia World War II Army Airfields - Wikipedia

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   Air Force Combat Wings Lineage and Honors Histories 1947-1977. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-912799-12-9. Thole, Lou (1999), Forgotten Fields of America : World War II Bases and Training, Then and Now - Vol. 2. Pictorial Histories Pub . ISBN 1-57510-051-7; Military Airfields in World War II - Virginia

3. List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft ...

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   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.

4. MacArthur Memorial - Wikipedia

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   The Memorial also pays tribute to the men and women who served with General MacArthur in World War I, World War II, and the Korean War. Visitor Center – includes the MacArthur Memorial Theater showing a 27-minute movie about MacArthur's life, a special exhibit gallery, the general's personal staff car, and other vehicles from World War II, a ...

5. 100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum - Wikipedia

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   The 100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum, located in the original control tower and other remaining buildings of the RAF Thorpe Abbotts airfield east of Diss in Norfolk is named after the 100th Bomb Group and is dedicated to the American soldiers and members of the US 8th Air Force [1] who fought with the Allies in Norfolk in World War II.

6. History of Norfolk, Virginia - Wikipedia

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   The history of Norfolk, Virginia as a modern settlement begins in 1636. The city was named after the English county of Norfolk [1] [2] and was formally incorporated in 1736. . The city was burned by orders of the outgoing Virginia governor Lord Dunmore in 1776 during the second year of the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), although it was soon rebu

7. National Register of Historic Places listings in Norfolk ...

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   Location of Norfolk in Virginia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the independent city of Norfolk, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below may be ...

8. List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft ...

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   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.

9. List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft ...

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   A U.S. Air Force KB-50 aerial tanker with nine crew members onboard disappeared approximately 240 miles (390 km) east of Norfolk, Virginia, on a flight from Langley Air Force Base to the Azores. Despite an exhaustive search of 325,000 square miles (840,000 km 2 ) of the Atlantic, nothing was found of the aircraft or its crew.