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[Jeannette Latoria]

The Day A Bomber Hit The Empire State Building
by Joe Richman


 


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The Empire State Building was enveloped in smoke after it was rammed by a U.S. Army B-25 bomber on July 28, 1945.

 
 
 
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At the time the B-25 bomber slammed into the Empire State Building, an engineer for the American Society of Civil Engineers happened to be dictating a letter onto a recording device. He captured the sounds of the crash.


Listen: A B-25 Crashes Into The Empire State Building In 1945
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