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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.
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Wreckage from the 1945 Empire State Building B-25 crash. At 9:40 am on July 28, 1945, a B-25 Mitchell bomber, piloted in thick fog by Lieutenant Colonel William Franklin Smith Jr., [391] crashed into the north side of the Empire State Building between the 79th and 80th floors (then the offices of the National Catholic Welfare Council).
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 ...
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The year 1945 in film involved some significant events. With 1945 being the last year of World War II , the many films released this year had themes of patriotism, sacrifices, and peace. [ 1 ] In the United States, there were more than eighteen thousand movie theatres operating in 1945, a figure that grew by a third from a decade earlier.
April 1944 9 April Rosie the Riveter; 17 April The Lady and the Monster; 25 April Pin Up Girl; And the Angels Sing; 26 April The Hitler Gang; The Story of Dr. Wassell; May 1944 5 May Follow the Boys; 8 May Time Flies – (Great Britain) 11 May The White Cliffs of Dover; 13 May Cowboy and the Senorita; 27 May The Tiger Woman; June 1944 1 June ...
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 ...