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The 329th Bomb Group (and its successor designations) was the major operational training unit (OTU) at Columbia AAB during World War II, providing crew and replacement training in B-25s until 1 May 1944 when the 309th was re-designated as the 329th Bombardment Group.
Martin B-26B-35-MA Marauder, 41-32067, flown by Donald A. Landis, and B-26C-20-MO, 41-35169, piloted by Thomas W. Wilson, both of the 477th Bomb Squadron, 335th Bomb Group, involved. 3 March "SANTA ANA, March 4 – The Marine air base announced today that two fliers were killed yesterday in a plane crash seven miles east of San Juan Capistrano."
The Army Air Forces also employed two composite groups with their own TO&Es: the 28th Bomb Group (15 B-24 and 30 B-25), and the 509th Composite Group (15 B-29 and 5 C-54). 19 heavy groups and one light bomb group were to be converted to very heavy groups for duty against Japan, but the war ended before the plan was carried out.
Officials have recovered all nine bodies in the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven others, the Los Angeles County Coroner’s office told news outlets Tuesday.
WASHINGTON – Search crews recovered 41 bodies from the Potomac River after the collision of a passenger plane and a U.S. Army helicopter killed 67 people in the deadliest aviation disaster in ...
Boeing B-29A-85-BW Superfortress 44-87638, [316] of the 30th Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, 20th Air Force, [317] crashed and exploded one mile offshore at Kwajalein Island after take-off. Sixteen people were killed, and no bodies are recovered. One of the dead was Capt. Quitman B. Jackson, 24, of Columbia, South Carolina, a 1944 graduate of ...
Bodies of 41 people killed when an American Airlines plane and an Army helicopter collided in the air over Washington, DC, Wednesday night have been recovered from the wreckage, officials said Friday.
The 303rd Bomb Group, activated at Pendleton Field, Oregon, on 3 February 1942, suffers its first fatal aircraft accident when three flying officers and five enlisted crew are killed in the crash of Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress, 41-9053, c/n 2525, [144] six miles (10 km) N of Strevell, Idaho [225] during a training mission.