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Mar 19
2009

AF History, 20 March

Posted by: Beak

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Beak

 

20 Mar 1944; On the day after Operation STRANGLE began, Mount Vesuvius erupted and buried the Pompeii airdrome, the base of the 340th Bomb Group conducting operations against German forces.  Lava cinders destroyed or damaged some 88 B-25s in one of the worst single losses of aircraft in the war.


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Spike said:

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Wow, look at all that SUV exhaust coming out of the top of Vesuvius! Where's ManBearPig when you need him?
March 20, 2009

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