• 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...
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  • state of Queensland William F. Smith, Jr. (died 1945), lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Air Forces who died in the 1945 Empire State Building B-25...
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  • 1945, a B-25 Mitchell bomber, piloted in thick fog by Lieutenant Colonel William Franklin Smith Jr., crashed into the north side of the Empire State Building...
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    simplicity of such actions. 1945 Empire State Building B-25 crash – Aviation accident 2002 Pirelli Tower airplane crash – Airplane crash in Milan, Italy 2006...
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    Crash, in an episode called "Small Planes, Big Problem". New York City portal Aviation portal 1945 Empire State Building B-25 crash 1946 plane crash at...
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    Thompson, Helen (July 30, 2015). "70 Years Ago, a B-25 Bomber Crashed Into the Empire State Building". Smithsonian. Retrieved May 3, 2020. "What we know...
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  • only once have steel lift cables snapped, on 28 July 1945, in the 1945 Empire State Building B-25 crash after being lost in fog, severing the lift governor...
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    Foreign Affairs Secretary. 1945 Empire State Building B-25 crash: A B-25 Mitchell bomber crashed into the Empire State Building in New York City during a...
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    aircraft. At 9:40 on 28 July 1945, a USAAF B-25D crashed in thick fog into the north side of the Empire State Building between the 79th and 80th floors...
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    This crash was the second in New York City in less than a year; an Army B-25 bomber struck the 78th floor of the Empire State Building in July 1945, also...
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    following the 1945 B-25 Empire State Building crash, where a bomber piloted in thick fog by Lieutenant Colonel William F. Smith, Jr. crashed into the north...
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  • four-month search. 20 May 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...
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  • competition with 40 Wall Street and the Empire State Building to become the world's tallest building. The Chrysler Building was designed and funded by Walter...
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    Henry Hering (category Sculptors from New York (state))
    remembered in relation to the crash of an American B-25 military airplane into New York City's Empire State Building on July 28, 1945. The largest sections of...
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    estimated 20 million Chinese died during the 1931–1945 war with Japan. In December 1941, the empire of Japan joined World War II by invading the European...
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    August 25, 1949 — Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection". Coloradohistoricnewspapers.org. "Beech 35 crash in Colorado (N792D)". PlaneCrashMap.com....
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  • rejects the Potsdam Declaration. A North American B-25 Mitchell crashes into The Empire State Building, killing 14 people. July 29 The BBC Light Programme...
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    war crime, raising moral and ethical implications. In 1945, the Pacific War between the Empire of Japan and the Allies entered its fourth year. Most Japanese...
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  • ISBN 9785873663927. 1945 Michigan train wreck. Bonham, Kevin (April 16, 2012). "Monument, in honor of Michigan, N.D., train crash of 1945, to be dedicated...
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    with the Stock Market Crash of 1929. The recently completed Empire State Building would be known as the "Empty State Building" for many years because...
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    third-most populous (after Russia and the German Empire). The Empire built up the fourth-largest machine-building industry in the world. With the exception of...
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    Panic of 1873 (redirect from Crash of 1873)
    in 1873 after the Vienna Stock Exchange crash. In Berlin, the railway empire of Bethel Henry Strousberg crashed after a ruinous settlement with the government...
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    The Italian colonial empire (Italian: Impero coloniale italiano), also known as the Italian Empire (Impero italiano) between 1936 and 1941, was founded...
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  • killing two men and one woman. On 28 July 1945, a U.S. Army plane crashed into the Empire State Building in New York City, causing an elevator to fall...
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    destroy 28,000 buildings. 4 March 1945: 159 B-29s hit urban area. 9 March 1945: 334 B-29s dropping incendiaries destroy 267,000 buildings; 25% of city (Operation...
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  • Government ended shortly after Subhas Bose died in a plane crash on the way to Taiwan, in August 1945. With his death, much of the Indian National Army surrendered...
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    Hollywood Burbank Airport (category Buildings and structures in Burbank, California)
    engineer and two non-revenue passengers—died in the crash. Also killed were two persons in a commercial building and a teen-age girl in a house that were among...
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    from 1947 to 1976. In 1945, a B-25 Mitchell bomber of the US Army Air Corps accidentally crashed into the Empire State Building in Manhattan, destroying...
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