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This is a list of aviation-related events from 1945:

Contents 1 Events 1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 July 1.7 August 1.8 September 1.9 October 1.10 November 1.11 December 2 First flights 3 Entered service 3.1 January 3.2 August 3.3 November 4 References

[edit] Events

[edit] January

• January 1 - the Luftwaffe begins targeting Allied airfields in Europe as "Operation Bodenplatte"

[edit] February

• The U.S. Navy's first recorded use of JATO, utilized to lift a PBM-5 Mariner off of a stretch of the Colorado River near Yuma, Arizona after being forced down. ^[1]
• February 13-15 - Allied bombers attack Dresden with incendiary weapons, destroying most of the city and killing some 50,000 people.
• February 21 - aircraft carrier USS Saratoga is badly damaged by a kamikaze attack

[edit] March

• March 13-14 - an Avro Lancaster of No. 617 Squadron RAF drops the first 22,000 lb (9,980 kg) Grand Slam bomb
• March 21 - the Ohka dedicated kamikaze weapon is used operationally for the first time but with no success.
• March 24 - Allied forces began large-scale crossings of the Rhine as Operation Varsity, the operation involved 2,000 transport aircraft and gliders.
• March 27 - the final V-2 missile to hit England falls in Kent

[edit] April

• April 1 - Ohkas score hits on the USS West Virginia and three of her escorts.
• April 10 - the Luftwaffe flies its final sortie over England (with an Arado Ar 234 on a reconnaissance mission from Norway)
• April 12 - USS Mannert L. Abele is sunk by an Ohka
• April 23 - the US Navy puts its first radar-guided bomb into use, the SWOD-9 "Bat", dropped from Consolidated PB4Ys on Japanese shipping in Balikpapan Harbour.
• April 25 - 275 B-17s escorted by four groups of P-51 Mustangs attacked the Pilzen-Škoda armament factory in Czechoslovakia - the last heavy bomber mission by the United States 8th Air Force against an industrial target.

[edit] May

• May 3 - the Royal Air Force sinks Cap Arcona, Thielbek, and Deutschland
• World's top-scoring fighter ace German pilot Erich Hartmann surrenders to Allied forces
• May 7 - the Royal Air Force sinks its last German submarine
• May 8 - VE Day - Germany surrenders, ending the Second World War in Europe

[edit] July

• July 5 – American Airlines acquires American Export Airlines and forms American Overseas Airlines
• July 12 – An Eastern Air Lines flight en route from Boston to Miami with stops in Washington, D.C. and Columbia, SC collided with a US Army A-26 Invader bomber at 3,100 feet above Syracuse, SC (about 20 miles from Florence, SC). The commercial pilot, G. D. Davis, landed his craft in a cornfield. One passenger, an infant, was killed. The bomber's tail was sheared off ; two died and one was able to parachute safely.
• July 28 - a B-25 Mitchell bomber crashed into the Empire State Building, New York City NY

[edit] August

• August 1 - Toyama, Japan is the target of an incendiary attack by the USAAF that destroys almost the entire city
• August 6 - B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay drops "Little Boy" the first nuclear weapon used in warfare over the Japanese city of Hiroshima
• August 9 - B-29 Bockscar drops a plutonium-239 nuclear weapon, Fat Man, on Nagasaki, Japan.
• August 14 - VJ Day - Japan surrenders, ending the war in the Pacific arena, and World War II was finally over.
• August 15 - seven Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft make the last kamikaze attack of the war.
• August 19 - two Mitsubishi G4Ms carry Japan's surrender delegation to Ie Shima

[edit] September

• a captured Focke Achgelis Fa 223 makes the first helicopter crossing of the English Channel
• September 20, an experimental Gloster Meteor with Rolls-Royce Trent engines, makes the first turboprop-powered flight.

[edit] October

• 1 October - 1st annual general meeting of the International Air Transport Association begins in Montreal, Canada.
• 24 October - AOA - American Overseas Airlines operated the first scheduled commercial transatlantic flight by a landplane (Douglas C-54 Skymaster), between New York City, NY USA and London, England UK. Since the new London-Heathrow airport was not yet available for commercial operations, AOA had to use Bournemouth-Hurn Airport.

[edit] November

• November 7 – Gp Cpt H. J. Wilson sets a new official airspeed record of 606 mph (976 km/h) in a Gloster Meteor. Unofficial German speed records by the rocket-powered Messerschmitt Me 163 during the war had already exceeded 625 mph (1,000 km/h)

[edit] December

• December 4 - A Mk5 Sea Vampire became the first jet aircraft to intentionally take off and land from an aircraft carrier, HMS Ocean.^[2]

[edit] First flights

January

• January 26 - McDonnell XFD-1 Phantom, the first jet aircraft to operate from a US Navy aircraft carrier

February

• February 1 - Kawasaki Ki-100
• February 7 - Consolidated-Vultee XP-81
• February 21 - Hawker Sea Fury prototype SR661
• February 25 - Bell XP-83

March

• March 1 - Bachem Ba 349
• March 3 - Mikoyan-Gurevich I-250 (N), first Soviet thermojet.
• March 18 - Douglas XB2D-1, prototype of the AD Skyraider

April

• April 19 - de Havilland Sea Hornet prototype PX212
• April 27 - Pilatus P-2

May

• May 17 - Lockheed Neptune Bu48237

June

• June 10 - Ilyushin IL-16
• June 14 - Avro Tudor 1 G-AGPF
• June 22 - Vickers Viking prototype G-AGOK

August

• August 3 - Kyūshū J7W Shinden
• August 7 - Nakajima Kikka, first Japanese jet

September

• September 5 - C-74 Globemaster

October

• October 27 - Bristol Buckmaster
• October 28 - LWD Szpak

November

• November 10 - Yakovlev Yak-11
• November 15 - PZL S-1
• November 20 - Saab 91 Safir

December

• December 2 - Bristol 170 G-AGPV
• December 8 - Bell 47 prototype NC1H
• December 19- Grumman Guardian prototype Bu90504
• December 22 - Beechcraft Bonanza

Unknown Date

• Thorp T-211

[edit] Entered service

[edit] January

• Ilyushin IL-10 in the Soviet Air Force

[edit] August

• Avro Lincoln with No. 57 Squadron RAF

[edit] November

• Hawker Tempest II with No. 54 Squadron RAF

[edit] References

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