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List of aviation accidents and incidents in the war in Afghanistan; List of Soviet aircraft losses during the Soviet–Afghan War; List of Russian aircraft losses in the Second Chechen War; List of aviation shootdowns and accidents during the Iraq War; List of aviation shootdowns and accidents during the Libyan Civil War (2011)
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 AAF Base Unit, Air Materiel Command, [257] on a navigation-training flight from Lake Charles Army Air Field in Louisiana, [258] crashed in fog at about 20:10 into the 58th floor of the Bank of Manhattan Trust ...
Headquarters, XIII Bomber Command (27 August 1945 – 15 March 1946) 310th Bombardment Wing (23 August – 21 October 1945) 91st Reconnaissance Wing (24 March – 30 July 1945) 22d Bombardment Group (12 March – 4 August 1945) 43d Bombardment Group (16 March – 26 July 1945) 345th Bombardment Group (12 May – 25 July 1945)
The B-25 medium bomber was one the most famous airplanes of World War II. It was the type used by Gen. Jimmy Doolittle for the famous Doolittle Raid over Japan on 18 April 1942. The first B-25 test aircraft flew on 19 August 1940, and the first production Mitchell was delivered to the 17th Bombardment Group in February 1941. A total of 9,816 ...
The North American B-25 Mitchell is an American medium bomber that was introduced in 1941 and named in honor of Brigadier General William "Billy" Mitchell, a pioneer of U.S. military aviation. [2] Used by many Allied air forces, the B-25 served in every theater of World War II , and after the war ended, many remained in service, operating ...
This is a list of aircraft shootdowns, dogfights and other incidents during wars since World War II.An aircraft shootdown occurs when an aircraft is struck by a projectile launched or fired from another aircraft or from the ground (anti-aircraft warfare) which causes the targeted aircraft to lose its ability to continue flying normally, and then subsequently crashing into land or sea, often ...
This is the complete order of battle of Allied and Japanese forces during the Borneo campaign of 1945. As the campaign was fought in three geographically separate areas and the same air and naval units supported more than one of these battles the order of battle is split into the three areas.
b-25 40-2168 Miss Hap – based at the American Airpower Museum in Farmingdale, NY . This aircraft was the fourth off the North American production line in 1940 and was designated an RB-25 (the "R" indicating restricted from combat, not a reconnaissance aircraft) and was assigned to General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold in 1943 and 1944.