A B-17 crew from the United States Army Air Force’s Eighth
Air Force, 385th Bomb Group, plot a target on a map prior
to a mission.
The U.S. Eighth Air Force launched its bombing campaign against
Nazi Germany, one of the largest, most important and most
devastating strategic initiatives in the annals of warfare, on this
day in history, Jan. 27, 1943.
The crew of the B-17 Flying Fortress Knock-out Dropper
bomber.
A launch pad fire during Apollo program tests at Cape Canaveral,
Florida, killed astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Edward H. White II,
and Roger B. Chaffee.
An investigation indicated that a faulty electrical wire inside the
Apollo 1 command module was the probable cause of the fire.
The astronauts, the first Americans to die in a spacecraft, had
been participating in a simulation of the Apollo 1 launch that
was scheduled for the following month.
The Apollo 1 prime crewmembers intended for the first
manned Apollo space flight: (L to R) Edward H. White II,
Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, and Roger B. Chaffee.
