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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.
The Group arrived in San Diego on November 8, 1945, and reported to Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California. [16] The 1st Provisional Antiaircraft Artillery Group as officially decommissioned on December 5, 1945, by the authority of Area Special Order Number 354-45. [2]
December 5, 1945: Flight 19 disappears over the Bermuda Triangle (photo-illustration) The following events occurred in December 1945: December 1, 1945 (Saturday)
Decades later, on December 5, 1945, five U.S. Navy Avenger torpedo bombers left Ft. Lauderdale Naval Air Station on a routine training run... and never returned.
After a series of crashes, the Dutch withdrew their remaining aircraft from use in December 1959. [16] On 5 December 1945, a PBM Mariner took off from Eastern Florida to search for a missing Flight 19 (five TBM Avengers on a training flight), and was not heard from again. Twenty minutes after takeoff the airplane vanished from radar.
1945 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the ... December 5 – Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1864)
December 4 – By a vote of 65–7, the United States Senate approves the entry of the United States into the United Nations. [8] December 5 – Flight 19 of U.S. Navy Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo bombers disappears on a training exercise from Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale.
5 December Flight 19, a training flight of 5 Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bombers manned by 14 US Navy and Marine personnel from Ft Lauderdale Naval Air Station in Florida, vanished over the Bermuda Triangle under mysterious circumstances. The Avengers were four TBM-1Cs (BuNo 45714, FT3; BuNo 46094, FT36; BuNo 46325, FT81 and BuNo 73209, FT117 ...