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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.
[note 1] Bombing and Gunnery schools trained Air Gunners, Wireless Air Gunners, Air Observers, Air Bombers, and Navigator-Bomb Aimers. These airmen served as aircrew on bombers and maritime patrol aircraft. The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan was a temporary wartime measure that ended on 29 March 1945.
A Focke-Wulf Fw 190D-9, flown by Leutnant Theo Nibel, downed by a partridge near Brussels on 1 January 1945 1 January A Focke-Wulf Fw 190D-9 Black 12 of 10./ JG. 54, flown by Leutnant Theo Nibel of the Grimbergen force, was downed during Unternehmen Bodenplatte when it struck a partridge.
The school actually closed on 12 January 1945, when an air force transition team took over, and on 22 February 1945 the RCAF formally withdrew and returned the campus to the OAC. At least 8,000 airmen and airwomen were trained at RCAF Station Guelph. [note 3]
XV Air Force Service Command, 18 May 1945 [1] Air Service Command, Mediterranean Theater of Operations, 1945; Air Force General Depot, Naples 11 November 1945 [4] IX Air Force Service Command, ca. July 1946 – 15 September 1946; Unknown c. 1 October 1946 – 15 August 1947 [b] 4704th Defense Wing, 16 February 1953 [13] 25th Air Division 8 ...
1942–1945; 1956–present: Country United States: Branch United States Air Force: Role: Fighter: Part of: Air Force Reserve Command: Garrison/HQ: Elmendorf Air Force Base: Motto(s) So That Others May Live (1956–1974) Anywhere, Anytime (1974–1987) Engagements: Mediterranean Theater of Operations [1] Decorations: Air Force Outstanding Unit ...
The Asch Airfield (Designated: Y-29) had been constructed in November 1944 and was home to the 352nd Fighter Group, 8th Air Force, and the 366th Fighter Group, Ninth Air Force. [77] Jagdgeschwader 11 (JG 11) was to destroy the airfield. I./JG 11 had only 16 Fw 190s on strength and only six fit and operational pilots.
In 1945, the 86th returned to the United States to begin training in support of a new mission of night tactical operations. Stationed at Biggs Field, Texas, in 1946, and then Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, in 1948, the 86th was redesigned the 86th Bombardment Squadron, Light, Jet, flying the A-26 and then B-45 aircraft.