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Flight 19 was the designation of a group of five General Motors TBF Avenger torpedo bombers that disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle on December 5, 1945, after losing contact during a United States Navy overwater navigation training flight from Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Honolulu Clipper departed Hawaii on 3 November 1945 with an Operation Magic Carpet flight carrying 26 military personnel returning to the United States after service in the Pacific. The aircraft lost power in both starboard engines after five hours of flying, and successfully landed 650 miles east of Oahu shortly before midnight.
A U.S. Navy PBM-1 of Patrol Squadron 56 (VP-56) in 1940. A PBM-5 on the deck of USS Norton Sound in April 1945 off Saipan A U.S. Navy PBM of Fleet Air Wing 6 is hoisted aboard the seaplane tender USS Curtiss (AV-4) after a mine-hunting patrol off North Korea during the Korean War (1950-1953).
A letter dated from 1945 found by Suzanne Flament Smith The letter in cursive writing is dated March 4, 1945, with its letterhead marked “United States Navy, Amphibious Training Base in Little ...
Hawaii Clipper was the first of the initial three long-range flying boats to be lost. It was the worst Pacific airline accident at the time, although fatalities were higher when the other two Martin M-130 flying boats crashed later. The Philippine Clipper crash of 1943 killed 19, and 23 were killed when China Clipper crashed in 1945. [7]
Video shot from a highway showed the plane flying low, before dipping out of view and then exploding in a ball of flames. Horrifying video captured the moment a plane crashed near the Honolulu ...
Andrey Ter tells PEOPLE his wife Olesya Taylor, 50, and youngest daughter Olivia Ter, 12, were among the 67 people killed when American Airlines Flight 5342 collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk ...
Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita was found guilty of war crimes in a Manila court and sentenced to death. [3] The U.S. State Department announced plans to resettle 6.6 million Germans from Eastern Europe in the U.S. and Soviet occupation zones of Germany in the next eight months. [8] Born: Clive Russell, actor, in Reeth, England