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The Memphis Belle flying back to the US after its 25th
mission over Germany.
On May 17, 1943, the crew of the Memphis Belle, one of a group
of American bombers based in Britain, became one of the first
B-17 crews to complete 25 missions over Europe and return to
the United States.
The Memphis Belle performed its 25th and last mission, in a
bombing raid against Lorient, a German submarine base.
Lt General Jacob Devers (center) shakes hands with one of
the crew of the Memphis Belle before she flew back to the
US in 1943.
Visitors gather for a private viewing of the Memphis Belle, a Boeing B-17 ‘Flying Fortress,’ at the National Museum of the
US Air Force 2018.


Just after 9 a.m. on April 19, 1995, a massive truck bomb
exploded outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
The blast collapsed the north face of the nine-story building,
instantly killing more than 100 people and trapping dozens
more in the rubble.
Emergency crews raced to Oklahoma City from across the
country, and when the rescue effort finally ended two weeks
later the death toll stood at 168 people killed, including 19
young children who were in the building’s day-care center
at the time of the blast.




On April 15, 2013, two bombs went off near the finish line of the
Boston Marathon, killing three spectators and wounding more
than 260 other people in attendance.
Four days later, after an intense manhunt that shut down the
Boston area, police captured one of the bombing suspects,
19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev; his older brother and fellow
suspect, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, died following a
shootout with law enforcement earlier that same day.
This photo released by the FBI of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, left,
and his brother, Tamerlan, right.

At his small wilderness cabin near Lincoln, Montana (above),
Theodore John Kaczynski was arrested by FBI agents and
accused of being the Unabomber, the elusive terrorist blamed
for 16 mail bombs that killed three people and injured 23 during
an 18-year period.
Theodore John Kaczynski
(May 22, 1942 – June 10, 2023)
At 12:23 a.m. on June 10, 2023, Kaczynski was
found in his cell unresponsive with no pulse
after hanging himself with a shoelace from a
handicap rail.
