- 1945 in aviation
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in?=in aviation
cp=19th Century
c=20th century
cf=21st century
yp1=1942
yp2=1943
yp3=1944
year=1945
ya1=1946
ya2=1947
ya3=1948
dp3=1910s
dp2=1920s
dp1=1930s
d=1940s
dn1=1950s
dn2=1960s
dn3=1970sThis is a list of
aviation -related events from1945 :Events
January
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January 1 - theLuftwaffe begins targeting Allied airfields in Europe as "Operation Bodenplatte "February
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February 13 -15 - Allied bombers attackDresden with incendiary weapons, destroying most of the city and killing some 50,000 people.
*February 21 -aircraft carrier USS "Saratoga" is badly damaged by akamikaze attackMarch
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March 13 -14 - anAvro Lancaster ofNo. 617 Squadron RAF drops the first 22,000 lb (9,980 kg)Grand Slam bomb
*March 21 - theOhka 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 asOperation Varsity , the operation involved 2,000 transport aircraft and gliders.
*March 27 - the finalV-2 missile to hitEngland falls inKent April
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April 1 - Ohkas score hits on the USS "West Virginia" and three of her escorts.
*April 10 - theLuftwaffe flies its final sortie over England (with anArado Ar 234 on a reconnaissance mission from Norway)
*April 12 - USS "Mannert L. Abele" is sunk by an Ohka
*April 23 - theUS Navy puts its first radar-guided bomb into use, the SWOD-9 "Bat", dropped from Consolidated PB4Ys on Japanese shipping inBalikpapan 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 theUnited States 8th Air Force against an industrial target.May
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May 3 - theRoyal Air Force sinksCap Arcona ,Thielbek , and Deutschland
* World's top-scoring fighter ace German pilotErich Hartmann surrenders to Allied forces
*May 7 - theRoyal Air Force sinks its last German submarine
*May 8 -VE Day - Germany surrenders, ending the War in EuropeJuly
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July 5 –American Airlines acquiresAmerican Export Airlines and formsAmerican Overseas Airlines
*July 12 – AnEastern Air Lines flight en route from Boston,Massachusetts toMiami with stops inWashington, DC andColumbia, SC collided with a US ArmyB-25 Mitchell bomber about 3,000 feet above Syracuse, SC (about 20 miles fromFlorence, SC ). The commercial pilot, G. D. Davis, landed his craft in a cornfield nearby. One passenger, an infant, was killed. The bomber exploded; two died and one was able to parachute safely.
*July 28 - aB-25 Mitchell bomber crashed into theEmpire State Building August
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August 1 -Toyama is the subject of an incendiary attack by the USAAF that destroys almost the entire city
*August 6 -B-29 Superfortress "Enola Gay " drops "Little Boy " the firstnuclear weapon used in warfare over the Japanese city ofHiroshima
*August 9 - B-29 "Bockscar " drops a plutonium-239 nuclear weapon, "Fat Man ", on Nagasaki.
*August 14 -VJ Day - Japan surrenders, ending the War in the Pacific, andWorld War II .
*August 15 - sevenImperial Japanese Navy aircraft make the last kamikaze attack of the war.
*August 19 - twoMitsubishi G4M s carry Japan's surrender delegation toIe Shima eptember
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Focke Achgelis Fa 223 makes the firsthelicopter crossing of theEnglish Channel
*September 20 , an experimental Gloster Meteor withRolls-Royce Trent engines makes the firstturboprop -powered flight.October
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1 October - 1st annual general meeting of theInternational Air Transport Association begins in Montreal, Canada.
*24 October -American Overseas Airlines operates the first scheduled commercial trans-atlantic flight by a landplane (Douglas C-54 Skymaster), betweenNew York and Hurn,England .November
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November 7 – Gp Cpt H. J. Wilson sets a new official airspeed record of 606 mph (976 km/h) in aGloster Meteor . Unofficial German speed records by the rocket-poweredMesserschmitt Me 163 during the war had already exceeded 625 mph (1,000 km/h)December
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December 3 - A Mk5 Sea Vampire became the firstjet aircraft to take off and land from anaircraft carrier , HMS "Ocean".First flights
January
*January 26 - McDonnell XFD-1 Phantom, the firstjet aircraft to operate from aUS 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) , firstSoviet thermojet.
*March 18 - Douglas XB2D-1, prototype of theAD 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 jetSeptember
*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 Entered service
January
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Ilyushin Il-10 in theSoviet Air Force August
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Avro Lincoln withNo. 57 Squadron RAF November
*Hawker Tempest II with
No. 54 Squadron RAF
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