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B-36J (serial 52-2225) of the 11th Bombardment Wing in 1955 showing "six turning, four burning" As engine fires occurred with the B-36's radial engines, some crews humorously changed the aircraft's slogan from "six turning, four burning" into "two turning, two burning, two smoking, two choking and two more unaccounted for". [ 40 ] [
[6] Stewart's character is based on the real-life military career and an actual mission flown by Brigadier General Clifford Schoeffler , who crashed during an Arctic B-36 mission and survived. Brigadier General Schoeffler was on site at Carswell Air Force Base during the filming of Strategic Air Command as a consultant.
On 6 February 1958, British European Airways Flight 609, carrying members of the famed Manchester United soccer team, club officials and journalists, crashes into a house about 300 metres from the end of the runway in Munich after it fails to become airborne, killing 23 of the 44 people on board.
On the afternoon of April 4, Olivia Patterson looked up from her neighbor's backyard in North Yorkshire, England, and saw smoke billowing from the roof of her house. The 6-year-old charged inside ...
The wife of a prominent Georgia attorney has been convicted of killing her husband and burning his body. On Thursday, Dec. 5, Georgia Superior Court Judge David L. Cannon Jr. sentenced Farris, 64 ...
Four Marines were wounded and one Vietnamese child was killed in the fighting. No enemy bodies were found; the Marines assumed they carried off their dead. [2]: 63–4 The Marines used great force on August 3 at Cam Ne because they expected it to be occupied by Viet Cong soldiers. They had taken casualties there the previous month.
As of 6:45 a.m. on Saturday, 130 flights have been cancelled and 830 flights have been delayed nationwide. JetBlue Airlines leads in cancellations with 46 flights, or 4% of its scheduled flights ...
Murder, kidnapping, torture and intimidation were a routine part of Viet Cong (VC) and People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) operations during the Vietnam War.They were intended to liquidate opponents such as officials, leaders, military personnel, civilians who collaborated with the South Vietnamese government, erode the morale of South Vietnamese government employees, cow the populace and boost ...