Hank throws Mister Jinx out on his ear, but it looks like all she did is make him mad!
BSR: March 4, 1945 – https://i.imgur.com/wIyYB6B.jpg
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This strip turns out to be an eerie precursor to an event that happened just five months later…
On July 28, 1945, a B-25 Mitchell bomber of the United States Army Air Forces crashed into the Empire State Building in New York City, while flying in thick fog. The accident caused the death of fourteen people (three crewmen and eleven people in the building) and damage estimated at $1 million (equivalent to about $14M today), although the building’s structural integrity was not compromised.
https://i.imgur.com/lO7aiDz.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/ijc4bmx.jpg
At 9:40 a.m., the aircraft crashed into the north side of the Empire State Building, between the 78th and 80th floors, making an 18-by-20-foot hole in the building, into the offices of the War Relief Society and the National Catholic Welfare Council. One engine shot through the south side opposite the impact and flew as far as the next block, dropping 900 feet and landing on the roof of a nearby building and causing a fire that destroyed a penthouse art studio. The other engine and part of the landing gear fell down an elevator shaft. The resulting fire was extinguished in 40 minutes. The Empire State Building fire is the only significant fire at such a height to be brought under control by firefighters.
Hank throws Mister Jinx out on his ear, but it looks like all she did is make him mad!
BSR: March 4, 1945 – https://i.imgur.com/wIyYB6B.jpg
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This strip turns out to be an eerie precursor to an event that happened just five months later…
On July 28, 1945, a B-25 Mitchell bomber of the United States Army Air Forces crashed into the Empire State Building in New York City, while flying in thick fog. The accident caused the death of fourteen people (three crewmen and eleven people in the building) and damage estimated at $1 million (equivalent to about $14M today), although the building’s structural integrity was not compromised.
https://i.imgur.com/lO7aiDz.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/ijc4bmx.jpg
At 9:40 a.m., the aircraft crashed into the north side of the Empire State Building, between the 78th and 80th floors, making an 18-by-20-foot hole in the building, into the offices of the War Relief Society and the National Catholic Welfare Council. One engine shot through the south side opposite the impact and flew as far as the next block, dropping 900 feet and landing on the roof of a nearby building and causing a fire that destroyed a penthouse art studio. The other engine and part of the landing gear fell down an elevator shaft. The resulting fire was extinguished in 40 minutes. The Empire State Building fire is the only significant fire at such a height to be brought under control by firefighters.