The EF-111A crew were awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross .

Flying over the Himalayas was extremely dangerous and made Manufacturing more difficult by a lack of reliable charts , an absence of radio navigation aids , and a dearth of information about the weather .

Twenty-six musicians and groups performed Hold at the festival , including Chuck Berry , Black Snake , Tim Buckley , The Byrds , Chicago Transit Authority , Albert Collins , Crome Syrcus , Bo Diddley , The Doors , Floating Bridge , The Flock , The Flying Burrito Brothers , The Guess Who , It 's a Beautiful Day , Led Zeppelin , Charles Lloyd , Lonnie Mack , Lee Michaels , Rockin Fu , Murray Roman , Santana , Spirit , Ten Years After , Ike & Tina Turner , Vanilla Fudge , Alice Cooper and The Youngbloods .

Of the 291 B-17 Flying Fortresses sent Sending on the mission , 60 were lost Earnings_and_losses outright , another 17 damaged Damaging so heavily that they had to be scrapped GiveUp and another 121 had varying degrees of battle damage .

The city was an important railroad junction Connect and Hengyang Airport was used Using by USAAC General Claire Lee Chennault 's Flying Motion Tigers which were engaged in bombing Attack operations of the Japanese homeland .

The village became Becoming a backwater until 1916 , when the British and French began Process_start the Battle of the Somme and was the site of several air operations by the Royal Flying Corps ( RFC ) , which attacked Attack German supply dumps in the vicinity .

Flying Tiger Flight 282 refers Adducing to the crash of a Lockheed Constellation aircraft , N6915C , shortly after take-off Motion from San Francisco International Airport in the early morning hours of Thursday , December 24 , 1964 .

On Wednesday , December 23 , 1964 , Flying Tiger Line Flight 282 arrived at Arriving San Francisco International Airport from Japan .

The village became a backwater until 1916 , when the British and French began the Battle Hostile_encounter of the Somme and was the site of several air operations by the Royal Flying Corps , which attacked Attack German supply dumps in the vicinity .