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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.
In an accident similar to the B-25 Mitchell hitting the Empire State Building in 1945, USAAF Beech C-45F Expeditor 44-47570 of the 4108th AAF Base Unit, Air Materiel Command, [257] on a navigation-training flight from Lake Charles Army Air Field in Louisiana, [258] crashed in fog at about 20:10 into the 58th floor of the Bank of Manhattan Trust ...
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
Kusche originally included a long chapter in his Bermuda Triangle book about Flight 19, five Navy Avenger torpedo airplanes on a training mission out of Fort Lauderdale Naval Air Station that disappeared in the Atlantic Ocean on December 5, 1945. Kusche later expanded this chapter into a book, The Disappearance of Flight 19. [10]
The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes . List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft (1945–1949)
Five survivors were found two days later and the remaining four were found later on; two of the dead were found in the wreckage and the third remained missing as of 5 December 1945. [ 14 ] 30 October 1945: USAAF C-46A 43-47228 crashed into a hill after takeoff from Zhijiang after the aircraft did not gain sufficient altitude due to possible ...
In 1999, two fishermen in Kentucky found human remains wrapped in heavy tire chains and anchored with a hydraulic jack in a lake. With the aid of advanced DNA technology, state police on Monday ...
This was found to be unsuitable, and the jet engine was removed without ever having been used in flight. [4] The XTB3F-1 carried a crew of two seated side by side and an armament of two 20 mm cannon and 4,000 lb (1,814 kg) of bombs , torpedoes and/or rockets , and made its first flight on 19 December 1945.