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This article is a list of the emergency and first responder agencies that responded to the September 11 attacks against the United States, on September 11, 2001.These agencies responded during and after the attack and were part of the search-and-rescue, security, firefighting, clean-up, investigation, evacuation, support and traffic control on September 11.
Le Foudroyant, sunk by air attack off the beaches on 1 June; The RAF lost 145 aircraft, of which at least 42 were Spitfires, while the Luftwaffe lost 156 aircraft in operations during the nine days of Operation Dynamo, [146] including 35 destroyed by Royal Navy ships (plus 21 damaged) during the six days from 27 May to 1 June. [147]
New York City, the largest and most populous city in the United States, [1] [2] [3] has been the target of numerous acts of terrorism throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. The city, in particular, was one of the targets of the September 11 attacks , the single deadliest terrorist attack in history, which saw the destruction of the World Trade ...
In the worst attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor, three hijacked planes slammed into the Pentagon and New York's landmark World Trade Center on Tuesday, demolishing the two 110-story towers ...
Damaged by air attack off Bray on 29 May; left Dynamo for repair on 2 June HMS Impulsive (D11) Royal Navy: Destroyer: 1938: 1,370: Lt. Cdr. William Thomas, RN: 5: 2,917 Damaged by grounding on a wreck off Malo on 31 May; left Dynamo for repair HMS Intrepid (D10) Royal Navy: Destroyer: 1937: 1,370: Cdr. Roderick Cosmo Gordon, RN: 2: 668
John McLoughlin (born June 6, 1953) is a retired American police officer who is known for being one of the two Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police officers that survived after being trapped under the rubble of the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks.
The Confederate Army of Manhattan was a group of eight Southern operatives who attempted to burn New York City on or after Evacuation Day, November 25, 1864, during the final stages of the American Civil War. [1] In a plot orchestrated by Jacob Thompson, the operatives infiltrated Union territory by way of Canada and made their way to New York ...
9:01: FAA's New York Center contacts New York terminal approach control and asks for help in locating Flight 175. The flight is now in Central New Jersey headed for lower Manhattan. 9:01: News anchor Lynne White of local New York television station WPIX (channel 11) begins that station's report on the attack. [59]