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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.
A U.S. Navy Martin PBM-5E Mariner flying boat (BuNo 59336) [187] of VPB-205 carrying Rear Admiral William Sample, commander of Carrier Division 22, Suwannee Captain Charles C. McDonald and seven others, disappeared near Wakayama, Japan on a familiarization flight. They were declared dead on 4 October; the wreckage and their bodies were found on ...
1945: July 10, Thomas Arthur Garner, AMM3, USN, along with eleven other crew members, was lost at sea in a US Navy PBM3S patrol seaplane, Bu. No.6545, Sqd VPB2-OTU#3, in the Bermuda Triangle. They left Naval Air Station, Banana River, Florida, at 7:07 p.m. on July 9, 1945, for a radar training flight to Great Exuma, Bahamas.
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). PBM Mariner leaves a wake (August 1943)
Other than the Naval Flight Demonstration Squadron (NFDS) "Blue Angels", the organizations in the table below are not technically "squadrons", however they either have custody of and routinely fly Navy aircraft or they routinely fly aircraft on loan from fleet squadrons for advanced training of those fleet squadrons.
Oldest continuously active aircraft squadron in the U.S. Navy 1st VA squadron of CVAG-1 VA-1B: unknown: SB2C AD: VB-74: 1 May 1945-15 Nov 1946 VA-1B: 15 Nov 1946 – 1 Sep 1948 VA-24: 1 Sep 1948-1 Dec 1949 VF-24(2nd): 1 Dec 1949-9 Mar 1959 VF-211(3rd): 9 Mar 1959-Aug 2006 VFA-211: Aug 2006–present VFA-211 Not applicable, still exists
The training ship, a KFK-2-class naval drifter, was sunk sometime in 1945. KFK 203 Kriegsmarine: The KFK-2-class naval drifter, finished as a sailing vessel, was sunk sometime in early 1945. [10] KFK 204 Kriegsmarine: The KFK-2-class naval drifter, finished as a sailing vessel, was sunk sometime in early 1945. [11] King Edwin United Kingdom
[268] [269] [270] The Navy releases photos of the aircraft both under repair and in flight at San Diego on 15 October 1942. [271] 4 June "San Rafael, Calif., June 5, – Fourteen army flyers died in the crash of a heavy bomber near here last night, the army said today. Flames consumed the wreckage when the plane hit a hilltop as the pilot ...