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Mutual Broadcasting Special Report: Army Bomber Crashes in to Empire State Building (7/28/45)
archive.org ^ | 7/28/45

Posted on 07/28/2015 9:18:05 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson

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Barry Gray


TOPICS: Extended News
KEYWORDS: history; milhist; realtime; worldwarii
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1 posted on 07/28/2015 9:18:05 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

I remember Mutual News...


2 posted on 07/28/2015 9:19:05 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks ("If he were working for the other side, what would he be doing differently ?")
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To: r9etb; PzLdr; dfwgator; Paisan; From many - one.; rockinqsranch; 2banana; henkster; meandog; ...
The following is a special news report about the crash of a B-25 bomber into the Empire State Building a couple hours ago. It includes interviews with two women who were working in the building at the time of the crash (5:55). Listen at the linked recording.

Barry Gray

3 posted on 07/28/2015 9:19:18 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

When the first report came in on 9/11, I thought of this event. And thought the first crash was an accident.

Then came the report of the second.


4 posted on 07/28/2015 9:20:12 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Did they have Loose Change back then?


5 posted on 07/28/2015 9:20:25 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

Not much damage; the building was concrete, and with much more fire protection (asbestos) than is allowed today.


6 posted on 07/28/2015 9:24:29 AM PDT by CondorFlight (I)
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To: CondorFlight

Good thing it wasn’t made of steel. Fire melts steel don’cha know?


7 posted on 07/28/2015 9:25:36 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Hmm? Now imagine if the Japanese could have gotten some men in country to receive flight training in really big airplanes?


8 posted on 07/28/2015 9:26:14 AM PDT by fso301
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To: BenLurkin

I thought about the B-25 incident on 9/11 as well but that was not the first event that came to mind. I recall the morning of 9/11 vividly.

I was in my youngest son’s bedroom helping get him ready for school when my wife came in and said “A plane just crashed into the World Trade Center.” The words out of my mouth were “What do those people have against those buildings?” My first thought was of the 1993 plot to blow up the World Trade Center by moslem terrorists.

I knew immediately what it was, and who was behind it. And when the second plane crashed, I was not only shocked and angered, but also marveled at the operation the terrorists had just pulled off. My response to the second plane was “You sons of bitches...”


9 posted on 07/28/2015 9:27:23 AM PDT by henkster (Where'd my tagline go?)
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

One reason the AAC built most of it’s training bases in places like Nebraska was the number of days of clear weather, and because a crash would not likely occur over a heavily populated area. While the Empire State crash wasn’t a training flight, it proves the point. Of course the politicians who brought those investments back to their home states won big too. A few WWII training bases have been repurposed but most are derelict, with a few acres of concrete and the Norden bombsight storage building the most visible remains: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebraska_World_War_II_army_airfields


10 posted on 07/28/2015 9:30:20 AM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: CondorFlight

The Empire State Building is a steel skeleton clad in limestone.


11 posted on 07/28/2015 9:31:22 AM PDT by punchamullah
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To: BenLurkin

You read my mind. I started reading about this and the story of the woman who was in the elevator. The plane cut the cables and the lady survived the fall and was in a body cast for more than a year.


12 posted on 07/28/2015 9:34:33 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: punchamullah

A plane also once hit the similarly built Gulf Tower in Pittsburgh back in the day. Again, it barely made a dent.


13 posted on 07/28/2015 9:38:37 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: BenLurkin
"When the first report came in on 9/11, I thought of this event."

I did too. Someone came into my office and said a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center and I immediately thought about this incident. I had no grasp of how bad it was at that point.

14 posted on 07/28/2015 9:38:55 AM PDT by Flag_This (You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
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To: CondorFlight

It was also mostly vacant until the 1950s.


15 posted on 07/28/2015 9:44:16 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Side bar story to the crash.

A Puerto Rican taxi cab driver was stopped at 34th St and Fifth Avenue, heard the crash. Thinking it was a bomb blast signaling the start of the revolution, jumped from his car and started firing his pistol into the air, all the while yelling, “VIVA LA REVOLUCION!”.

One of those strange historical facts that takes up permanent residence in the memory bank.


16 posted on 07/28/2015 9:50:07 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

bump


17 posted on 07/28/2015 11:17:34 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: dfwgator
737's are much larger than B-25's, heavier too I suspect and carry a lot more fuel I think.

That's just a guess though.

18 posted on 07/28/2015 11:22:02 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: henkster

There is a huge difference between a WW2 era B-25 and a modern transcontinental Boeing 767 loaded with jet fuel.


19 posted on 07/28/2015 2:34:29 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: SamAdams76

Empty weight of B-25 — about 20,000 lbs.

Empty weight of a 767 — about 353,000 lbs.

20 times heavier.


20 posted on 07/28/2015 3:12:32 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (When things are rightly ordered, man is steward of God's gifts and civil law enables him to do so.)
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