European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 29, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                July 1985 the stars and stripes Page 9 Empire state building tragedy recalled new York a we interrupt this program to bring you the following bulletin what new yorkers have feared for years has a plane has crashed into the Empire state the july bulletin on radio station when was chilling the sight was an army b25 bomber had become lost in a fog Over Manhattan and smacked into the 79th floor of the the building elevator Ca Bles gasoline bathed the 78th and 79th floors in three people aboard the plane and 11 people in the building the a decorated Veteran of 100 combat had gotten lost in hazy weather on a flight from to he radioed la Guardia which directed him to but he asked and received permission to go to on the other Side of Manhattan from the apparently believing he was on the West Side of Manhattan rather than the he headed due West at 42nd he banked South and flew Over fifth trying desperately to at about the plane crashed into what was then the worlds tallest the 913 feet above 34th set off the highest major fire in City Histo flames reached up As High As the 86th floor one of the planes twin engines crashed into an elevator Shaft and fell feet into a sub basement the other engine fell to the roof of a 12story office building on West 33rd Street and set it on most of those who died and the 26 who were injured worked at the 79th floor offices of the War Relief service of the National Catholic welfare because it was a Only half the usual staff was there were about peo ple in the compared to a week Day average of to possibly the most remarkable aspect of the crash was the strength it revealed in two survivors the building itself and a Young woman named Betty Lou the building Shook and swayed As if struck by an but suffered no serious structural then was an elevator opera Tor who was blown out of her Post on the 75th floor and badly she was Given first Aid and put into another Eleva Tor car to go Down to an a woman Rode with As soon As the elevator doors the workers heard a crack like a the elevator weakened by the had the car plummeted to the when a Hole was Cut in the car and a coast guard officer slipped he found both women badly injured but who now lives in fort is still trying to forget the youd better believe she when asked if she was thinking about the 40th anniversary of the she  say any i just dont believe in dredging up the she its All Over and done b17 bomber had a Knack for survival in Wii Seattle a when de Michael saw dutch Farmers waving their Caps to show him the direction to he knew there was a Chance for him and two other crewmen who haunt bailed out of their crippled the whose 50th anniversary was toasted this weekend by the men and women who built it and flew it in world War had a Knack for German fighters had blown several holes in Michaels flying fortress on a bombing run near Only two of four engines were the instrument panel was blown the bomb Bay doors gaped the Ball Turret was jammed with guns thrust creating a Hazard of explosion on the Bombardier Parachute was riddled with holes and he had no Way to bail and Michael and his Copilot refused to de Sert Michael passed out from loss of blood pouring from a thigh but woke up just in time to orchestrate a Landing on some forgiving grass near an Raf i was so tuckered but suddenly this thing could still blow up some Raf Guys carried me from the plane to an ambulance standing said i of is one of five b17 crewmen who received the medal of Honor during world War ii attending the gathering he will Fly in one of the few restored planes during the 50th anniversary the Pilot said i could take the con Michael it should be Boeing officials expected perhaps As Many As b17 veterans and their families at the three Day party at Boeing Only two Miles from where Many of the bombers were the flying fortress was the Workhorse of the with and a vindication for Boeing engineers who had seen the prototype crash and lose a government con tract design work on the b17 began in the summer of 1934 and the prototype Model 299 first flew on july soon after the 299 was flown to the army Wright Field near for a test pitting Boeing against other manufacturers seeking a Mammoth government Teutons believe in fun a photo dressed up in typical outfits of the Teu these Fellows pull a wooden wheeled cart up a Dike at the Village of otters on the Elbe 75 Teutons taking part in the teutonic Miles from hundreds of which is designed More for toners enjoyed the meeting of some 200 fun than for bomber the 299 flew Miles nonstop to Wright Field at an average Speed of 252 Miles per a sensational feat at the made possible by the air planes four engine but Boeing lost the Competition when the prototype although the army ordered 13 bombers from a Douglas military version of the twin engined dc2 the b18 that Early the b17 eventually was dubbed the flying fortress for its and its Al Metal construction moved Boeing out of the stick and wire tens of thousands of men and women worked on the Assembly lines the Peak was in january scientists startled by new eruption Hawaii up1 the Kilauea Volcano startled scientists saturday by resuming an outburst that had been declared spattering molten Rock from a mile Long crack at the base of its lava belched from the 600to 900foot Section of the fissure nearest the 800ibot Cone on the Volcano Eastern a spokesman for the hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists had pronounced the latest round of activity Over on seven hours after lava fountains began spurting from the Cone built up by past phases of the Long lava fountains rocketed feet into the air during the Short scientists said measurements of harmonic tremor were indicating molten Rock was moving underground near the vent on the Volcano Eastern indicated the sum Mit of the Volcano 12 Miles away was inflate meaning it was apparently not the source of the molten the spokesman said it is possible that an Independent Pool of molten Rock beneath the vent is feeding the the Long fissure May have opened because molten Rock was unable to Rise to the surface within the Large he Kilauea rises feet above sea level on the Island of 200 Miles from Honolulu on the Island of Kilauea blends into the Eastern slope of the much larger Mauna Loa the islands other Active the earliest phases of the eruption that began lasted for Days and fuelled lava flows that rolled Over evacuated Homes several Miles