On April 4, , a dirigible crashes in New Jersey, killing 73 people in one of the first air disasters in history. The Akron was the largest airship built in the United States when it took its first flight in August In its short life of less than two years, it was NATO stood as the main U. After the successful siege of Boston, General George Washington begins marching his unpaid soldiers from their headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, toward New York in anticipation of a British invasion, on April 4, In a letter to the president of Congress, General Live TV.
This Day In History. History Vault. Art, Literature, and Film History. Lanphier Jr. But the eight survivors among the 16 Americans who carried out the mission said at a reunion Saturday that they could not corroborate the official account because they had not been debriefed immediately after the attack.
Which one was he in? Besby Frank Holmes of San Francisco. These accounts add great confusion to the subject. Holmes and the seven other survivors spoke at a symposium along with one of the Japanese Zero pilots. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet, died a gallant death in a plane during an engagement with the enemy while personally directing the general strategic operations on the front line in April, it was revealed in an announcement issued by the Imperial headquarters on Friday.
His end is a logical consequence of his inspiring practice of going into the thick of fighting. He was killed during a stirring air combat with the enemy on the foremost line.
Every member of the combined fleet on hearing the report of his heroic death was moved to every fiber of his being and vowed that the enemy pay dearly for the death of this great commander.
Under the August virtues of His Imperial Majesty, its fighting morale has only been heightened by the heroic example of one of its leaders and its determination to smash the enemy only intensified. Mysterious disease blamed on mine. The disease, known for the past 20 years, has been afflicting people, chiefly women, in the downstream town of Fuchu, and its environs in Nei-gun, Toyama Prefecture. The J. As the Americans neared the island, they had begun to climb.
Mitchell checked his watch: They were a minute ahead of schedule. Yamamoto ought to be about three miles to their port quarter…. Go get him. Trying to shake them off, he pulled away to the west, and his wingman Hine went with him. That was Rex Barber. Using the seconds Lanphier had given him, he went after the bombers, which had dived for the deck. As they passed across his nose, he banked hard starboard to get behind them, and for a few seconds his upraised left wing blocked the enemy planes from his view.
Miss Virginia flashed overhead. When Barber rolled out of his bank, he had one bomber in front of him. He started working it over with his nose-mounted 20mm cannon and four.
Phoebe had reached the top of its half-loop. From there he reported diving back down and banking around for one desperate, extreme-range, almost right-angle burst. Everything was over now! Firing all the while, Miss Virginia had closed to less than feet as debris, smoke and finally flames streamed off the bomber. Then the Betty abruptly snap-rolled left and down.
Barber dodged its upraised right wing and, looking back, saw smoke billowing up from the jungle. Verify him for me, Mitch.
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