5 May 1969 – A USAF North American F-100D-70-NA Super Sabre, #56-3214, one of two Super Sabres from the 452nd TFS/81st TFW out of RAF Lakenheath, was on a gunnery mission over Holbeach Range, Cambs., UK. The plane suffered engine failure, forcing pilot Capt. R.E. Riggs to eject. The jet fighter impacted into farmland, missing
6 June 1945 – “The Boeing B-29 Superfortress that led the first B-29 raid on Tokyo on 24 November 1944, 42-24592, named “Dauntless Dotty”, of the 869th Bomb Squadron, 497th Bomb Group, 73rd Bomb Wing, 20th Air Force, departs Kwajalein at 0306 hrs. for the second leg of a ferry flight back to the United […]
5 June 1956 – A USAF Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet of the 18th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron armed with 104 live rockets, struck an automobile during an aborted take-off at Wold-Chamberlain Field, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Both F-89 crew members survive but three of the five occupants of the automobile are killed. (1) Minneapolis was no stranger to
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1 June 1933 – The Century of Progress World’s Fair in Chicago was “originally intended to commemorate Chicago’s past” though it “came to symbolize hope for Chicago’s and America’s future in the midst of the Great Depression. This was the second world’s fair that Chicago had hosted, and by the time it closed, it had