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1945: Plane strikes Empire State Building
An Army bomber crashed into the 79th story of the Empire State
Building today, killing 11 office workers and injuring about 25
others. While employees on other floors of the skyscraper were
startled by the crash, police said nearly everyone was able to
evacuate in an orderly fashion within 20 minutes.
"The eight-ton, twin-engined B-25 'Billy Mitchell' plane, groping
through a thick fog toward the Newark airport, rammed the 102-story
skyscraper at 9:49 a.m., sending blazing gasoline cascading through
offices and down elevator shafts, jarring the area like an earthquake,
and showering broken glass and debris into crowded business streets
for five blocks around," reported the Oakland Tribuneon July 29, 1945.
NOTE: The bomber's pilot, Lieut. Col. William F. Smith of Watertown,
Massachusetts, and two other occupants in the plane, also died in the
crash. In 1945, Chapin L. Brown, vice president of Empire State, Inc.,
estimated that the crash caused about $500,000 in damage and would
take at least six months to make repairs.
Links to the Past
Bomber Hits Empire State
Waterloo Daily Courier, July 29, 1945
Continued: Plane
Skyscraper Disaster Scene Horrifies Gotham Crowds
Charleston Daily Mail, July 29, 1945
13 Die as Plane Hits Skyscraper, Explodes
Oakland Tribune, July 29, 1945
Continued: Empire State Bldg. Hit by Plane, Fired
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Links to the Past
Idlers’ Rest
The Gleaner, February 7, 2007
Waterloo Daily Courier
July 29, 1945
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