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This 8-minute film is a fascinating summary of how radar guided B-29 Flying Fortresses to their targets in Japan during the last months of World War II.
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radar
bomb
B-29
flying
fortress
japan
1945
Added: 19th August 2007
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Posted By: Admin |
 
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On the morning of Saturday, July 28, 1945 a B-25 bomber flying toward Newark airport in heavy fog struck the Empire State Building between the 78th and 79th floors.
If disappointed by the quality of the images, remember that this isnt a re-enactment; and the people arent actors.
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empire
state
building
airplane
crash
1945
B-25
Added: 9th September 2007
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Posted By: sdado4 |
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Newsreel film of the event travels at the speed of the technology of the day: In a monoplane traveling at 230 miles per hour from Washington to be shown in the theaters of New York City that afternoon.
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fdr
franklin
roosevelt
inauguration
1933
Added: 6th October 2007
Views: 122
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