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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.
Lost Squadron may refer to: The Lost Squadron , 1932 American action film Flight 19 , five United States Navy aircraft that disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle in 1945
They Were Expendable is a 1945 American war film directed by John Ford, starring Robert Montgomery and John Wayne, and featuring Donna Reed.The film is based on the 1942 novel of the same name by William Lindsay White, relating the story of the exploits of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Three, a United States PT boat unit defending the Philippines against Japanese invasion during the Battle of ...
The Lost Squadron is a 1932 American pre-Code drama, action, film starring Richard Dix, Mary Astor, and Robert Armstrong, with Erich von Stroheim and Joel McCrea in supporting roles, and released by RKO Radio Pictures.
Led by entrepreneurs Ken McBride and Jim Salazar, the group of a dozen Canadian and American explorers who have been working on the project since 2010 will attempt to extract the P-38 Echo, piloted by Capt. Robert Wilson and the second plane of the squadron to attempt landing, and donate it to a museum. Wilson's P-38 was the first to land ...
Squadron Leader X: Lance Comfort: Eric Portman, Ann Dvorak: On the BFI 75 Most Wanted list of lost films [97] 1944: Red Sky at Morning: Hartney Arthur: Peter Finch, John Alden [65] 1945: Flight from Folly: Herbert Mason: Patricia Kirkwood, Hugh Sinclair: Screen debut of stage star Kirkwood. On the BFI 75 Most Wanted list of lost films [98] 1945 ...
During World War II, Chief Aviation Pilot Ned Trumpet (Wallace Beery) is the commander of a U.S. Navy K class blimp at Lakehurst, New Jersey naval base."Old Gas Bag", who has a reputation for telling tall tales, brags about his fictional son to his skeptical friend Jimmy Shannon (James Gleason) and, then realizes that he will need to find someone to impersonate his "son".
Many aircraft lost control and crashed or were shot down by flak, and many pilots were killed, though a handful of aircraft scored near misses. One notable pilot death was that of Lieutenant Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. , USNR, son of the former US Ambassador to the UK, who was expected to have a political career in the US and was the elder brother ...