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Oglala (minelayer): damaged by torpedo hit on Helena, capsized; returned to service (as engine-repair ship) February 1944. Vestal (repair ship): hit by two bombs, blast and fire from Arizona, beached; returned to service by August 1942. Curtiss (seaplane tender): hit by one bomb, one crashed Japanese aircraft; returned to service January 1942 ...
Philippine Airlines Flight 434, sometimes referred to as PAL434 or PR434, was a scheduled flight on December 11, 1994, from Manila to Tokyo with a quick stopover in Cebu on a Boeing 747-283B that was seriously damaged by a bomb, killing one passenger and damaging vital control systems, although the plane was in a repairable state. [1]
USS Oglala (ID-1255/CM-4/ARG-1) was a minelayer in the United States Navy. Commissioned as Massachusetts , she was renamed Shawmut a month later, and in 1928, was renamed after the Oglala , a sub-tribe of the Lakota , residing in the Black Hills of South Dakota .
The retained area is the remainder of 341,726 acres (1,382.92 km 2) federally acquired in 1942 under eminent domain at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (Oglala Sioux). [2] In addition to use by World War II aircraft, BBR was used for a post-war Army National Guard gunnery range and a Cold War Radar Bomb Scoring site.
Incident at Oglala is a 1992 American documentary film directed by Michael Apted and narrated by Robert Redford. The film documents the deaths of two Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, Jack R. Coler and Ronald A. Williams , on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation on June 26, 1975.
Nevada State Fire Marshal Thomas J. Huddleston examining the bomb. The Harvey's Resort Hotel bombing took place on August 26–27, 1980, when several men masquerading as photocopier deliverers planted an elaborately booby trapped bomb containing 1,200 pounds (540 kg) of dynamite at Harvey's Resort Hotel ("Harveys" since 1986) in Stateline, Nevada, United States. [2]
The resulting explosion released the equivalent energy of 21 ± 2 kt (87.9 ± 8.4 TJ). [139] Big Stink spotted the explosion from 160 kilometers (100 mi) away, and flew over to observe. [209] The bomb destroyed the Roman Catholic Urakami Tenshudo Church. Bockscar flew on to Okinawa, arriving with only sufficient fuel for a single approach ...
The detonation produced a crater 1.9 km (6,200 ft) in diameter and 50 m (160 ft) deep where Elugelab had once been; [9] the blast and water waves from the explosion (some waves up to 6.1 m (20 ft) high) stripped the test islands clean of vegetation, as observed by a helicopter survey within 60 minutes after the test, by which time the mushroom ...