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USS Oklahoma City (CL-91/CLG-5/CG-5) was one of 27 United States Navy Cleveland-class light cruisers completed during or shortly after World War II, and one of six to be converted to guided missile cruisers. She was the first US Navy ship to be named for Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
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.
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 ...
Also killed was the pilot, Michael Kaswan, 68, of Oklahoma City, according to the funeral home handling his services. He is listed in Federal Aviation Administration records as the owner of the ...
A plane flies overhead five days after a fighter jet crashed and exploded in a Midwest City neighborhood on Aug. 25, 1961. The burned out shell of the Tuttle family house is shown, where a mother ...
Nachtjagdgeschwader 3, was the last Axis aircraft to crash on British soil during World War II. Confused by auto headlights, the fighter hit a tree while attacking the airfield at RAF Elvington and crashed at Sutton upon Derwent, Yorkshire; all four crew members were killed. Two other Ju 88s crashed in separate incidents at 1:37 and 1:45 am.
Federal investigators have released a preliminary report into the helicopter crash that killed three Air Evac crew members last month, revealing evidence of a possible bird strike.. While 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.