Natural Disaster
Geology
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WWII World War Two
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Potentially scary, even today. My last tour was at Naval Support Activity, Naples. That small base borders the only airport in the area and is only seven miles from the summit of Mount Vesuvius.
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Great history share. Not sure if it was the wing in this article, but I remember a bomb wing from back in my B-52 days whose patch was an aircraft dropping bombs on a volcano. http://www.ww2incolor.com/us-air-force/eruption_etna.html
US Army Air Force - Eruption of Vesuvius
The volcano destroyed more of the 340th Bombardment Group's aircraft (estimates vary between 78 and 88) than the devastating German Luftwaffe air raid of the 340th base at Alesani, Corsica on May 13, 1944 (about 75 aircraft). At Pompeii Airfield on March 23, 1944 nearly all of the 340th's B-25 Mitchell medium bombers were covered with hot ash that burned the fabric control surfaces, glazed, melted, or cracked the Plexiglass, and even tipped...
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Saw a clip about this on PBS a while back, definitely very destructive force of nature brother SGT (Join to see)
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