1948 Arab–Israeli War The British Mandate of Palestine is officially terminated; expeditionary forces from Egypt, Transjordan, Syria and Iraq invade Israel, and clash with Israeli forces. The murder of a 3yearold girl in Blackburn , England, leads to the fingerprinting of more than 40,000 men in the city, in an attempt to find the murderer.October 6 – 1948 Waycross B29 crash A U.S. Air Force B29100BW Superfortress bomber on a flight to test the secret Sunseeker infrared homing device later used on the AIM9 Sidewinder airtoair missile crashes in Waycross, Georgia, shortly after takeoff from Robins Air …
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