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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.
Imperial Japanese Army or Imperial Japanese Navy: World War II: The tanker (possibly renamed Nanjo Maru) was found sunk at Singapore by British forces. Returned to her Dutch owners at time of capture. [2] Bourgas Bulgaria: World War II: The cargo ship was sunk at Thessaloniki, Greece. The wreck was scrapped in situ in March 1948. [3] Ceram Maru
List of shipwrecks: 29 September 1945 Ship State Description Empire Patrol United Kingdom: The cargo ship caught fire in the Mediterranean Sea 38 nautical miles (70 km) off Port Said, Egypt and was abandoned by her crew and the 496 refugees she was carrying. She was taken in tow but capsized and sank two days later when still 18 nautical miles ...
They were declared dead on 4 October; the wreckage and their bodies were found on 19 November 1948. [188] 3 October Captured Focke-Achgelis Fa 223 V14, the first helicopter to fly across the English Channel on 6 September 1945 when it was moved from Cherbourg to RAF Beaulieu, crashed on its third test flight at RAF Beaulieu when a driveshaft ...
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)
VPB-24 was a Patrol Bombing Squadron of the U.S. Navy.The squadron was established as Patrol Squadron 9-S (VP-9S) on 7 January 1930, redesignated Patrol Squadron 9-B (VP-9B) on 1 October 1930, redesignated Patrol Squadron 9-F (VP-9F) on 26 October 1931, redesignated Patrol Squadron 9 (VP-9) on 1 October 1937, redesignated Patrol Squadron 12 (VP-12) on 1 July 1939, redesignated Patrol Squadron ...
Another version of the badge, with Greek motto misspelled. VF-114 was established as Bombing Fighter Squadron (VBF-19) on 20 January 1945, at NAS Alameda, California.Soon thereafter, Bombing Fighter Squadron, VBF-19 moved to NAS North Island, California, where it first flew the Grumman F6F Hellcat and then the Vought F4U-4 Corsair.
Fighting Squadron 6 or VF-6 was an aviation unit of the United States Navy.Originally established as Combat Squadron 4 on 23 September 1921, it was redesignated VF-2 on 1 July 1922, redesignated VF-2B on 19 March 1923, redesignated VF-6B on 1 January 1927, redesignated VF-6 on 1 July 1927, redesignated VB-2B on 1 July 1928, redesignated VF-6B on 1 July 1930, redesignated VF-3 on 1 July 1937 ...