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ADS-B data and recorded radio transmissions reveal that the air boss instructed the bomber formation to follow the 1,000 feet (300 m) show line, which runs parallel to and is situated 1,000 feet (300 m) away from the spectator viewing line. Concurrently, the fighters were directed to adopt a trail formation—where wingmen fly below and behind ...
B-17E-BO, 41-9091, of the 427th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, [24] operating out of Biggs Field, El Paso, Texas, suffers center fuselage failure in extremely bad weather 12 miles W of Las Cruces, New Mexico, only the radio operator and the engineering officer for the 427th Bomb Squadron, both in the radio room, survive by parachuting. Pilot ...
The aircraft involved was a 74-year-old Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, military serial number 44-83575 (variant B-17G-85-DL) with civilian registration N93012. [4] The aircraft was painted as a representation of a different B-17G, [ 5 ] Nine-O-Nine , with military serial number 42-31909 (variant B-17G-30-BO), which had been scrapped shortly after ...
A B-17 on display at the Arlington Municipal Airport in 2019. Bell P-63 Kingcobra The single-engine Bell P-63 Kingcobra was never used in combat by the United States, according to the National ...
May 19—More than 40 years after being killed in action in the closing days of World War II, a memorial stone was dedicated for U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Joseph Donini. The dedication was held May 28 ...
- Army officials today investigated the crash of a plane near Oak Ridge, Miss., in which 17 persons, two of them women, were killed." [ 85 ] The Biloxi Daily Herald reported on 16 June that the sole survivor was Sgt. R. L. Bullock of Somerset, New Jersey , an engineer on a B-17 stationed at Laredo , Texas, who was thrown clear when the plane ...
Nine-O-Nine was a Boeing B-17G-30-BO Flying Fortress heavy bomber, of the 323d Bombardment Squadron, 91st Bombardment Group, that completed 140 combat missions during World War II, believed to be the Eighth Air Force record for most missions without loss to the crews that flew her.
The B-17 was actually flying over Hamilton Field when they were in communication with the Oakland Naval Station Airport radio operators, but because of the dense fog the crew of the B-17 thought they were flying over the Oakland Naval Station Airport. Tragically, so did the Oakland radio operators. [3]