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AF History, 20 March
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- Published on Thursday, 19 March 2009 18:00
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.
