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On December 10, 1941 (December 9 in the United States), Kelly, with 14th Bombardment Squadron, 19th Bombardment Group, United States Army Air Forces was in command of B-17C Flying Fortress heavy bomber, #40-2045, which departed from Clark Field, on the island of Luzon, Commonwealth of the Philippines, alone and without escort, to search for an enemy aircraft carrier which had been reported ...
Only one member of the plane's crew of 14 escaped the flaming wreckage, parachuting to safety before the crash. He was Maj. James H. Wergen of Kingman field, Ariz., the bomber's home base. The plane went to pieces in the air as it fell, scattering a wingtip, one of its motors and other parts over a vast area.
To lighten aircraft, crew jettisons Mark 4 nuclear bomb casing over the Pacific Ocean from 8,000 feet (2,400 m). High explosives detonate on contact, large shockwave seen, 17 crew later bail out safely over Princess Royal Island , but five (the first to depart the bomber) are not recovered and are assumed to have come down in water and drowned ...
Pacific Ocean US Navy aircraft went missing during a flight out of NAS Kaneohe. The aircraft became separated from two accompanying aircraft over the Pacific in bad weather. The final radio contact mentioned that the crew was flying at 7000 feet (2135 m) on instruments and descending. [98] January 3, 1943: Consolidated PBY Catalina (08097) 8 ...
This aircraft, retired in 1960, was the last operational B-25 in the USAF inventory. [135] 44-31004 Mary Alice II – Battleship Memorial Park in Mobile, Alabama. [136] 44-31032 Problem Child – March Field Air Museum at March ARB (former March AFB) in Riverside, California. It is on loan from the Military Aircraft Restoration Corp in Chino ...
Officials say the bodies of 41 victims of the D.C. plane crash have been ... colliding with the military aircraft over the Potomac River around 9 p.m. local time, according to a statement from the ...
The aircraft was flying normally on Friday until 1:21 p.m., when it stopped responding to calls, and radar contact was lost at 1:22 p.m., the agency said. The crash happened shortly after, at 1:30 ...
This aircraft was a lead plane in Mission Boston during the airborne invasion of Normandy during D-Day. [130] [131] 43-48080 – Avionics Engineering Center of Ohio University in Albany, Ohio. It is painted in a civilian scheme. [132] [133] C-47B/R4D-6. 43-48608 Betsy's Biscuit Bomber – Estrella Warbirds Museum in Paso Robles, California ...