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On July 28, 1945, a B-25 Mitchell bomber of the United States Army Air Forces crashed into the north side of the Empire State Building in New York City while flying in thick fog. The crash killed fourteen people (three crewmen and eleven people in the building), and an estimated twenty-four others were injured.
Evelyn Francis McHale (September 20, 1923 – May 1, 1947) [1] was an American bookkeeper who jumped to her death from the 86th-floor observation deck of the Empire State Building. Robert Wiles, a photography student, took a picture of her corpse where it lay on top of a crushed car.
In an accident similar to the B-25 Mitchell hitting the Empire State Building in 1945, USAAF Beech C-45F Expeditor 44-47570 of the 4108th AAF Base Unit, Air Materiel Command, [257] on a navigation-training flight from Lake Charles Army Air Field in Louisiana, [258] crashed in fog at about 20:10 into the 58th floor of the Bank of Manhattan Trust ...
On July 28, 1945, residents of New York City were horrified when an airplane crashed into the Empire State Building, leaving 14 dead. Though the events of that day have largely faded from public ...
1945 Empire State Building B-25 crash; B. Jack Brod; E. Empire (1965 film) 1997 Empire State Building shooting; 2012 Empire State Building shooting; L. William F ...
The Empire State Building was bathed in a rainbow of colors earlier this month. The tower lights were tie-dye hued on Aug. 1 in honor of the late Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia’s birthday.
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A Japanese woman offers a prayer for victims of terrorist attacks on New York and Washington after laying flowers at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo September 12, 2001.