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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.
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.
A TBF-1 dropping a torpedo TBM-3Ds of VT(N)-90 January 1945 Six U.S. Navy Grumman TBM-3E Avenger anti-submarine aircraft of Composite Squadron VC-22 Checkmates flying over the Mediterranean Sea US Navy TBMs (foreground) and SB2C Helldivers drop bombs on Hakodate in July 1945 A TBM-3R COD plane in the early 1950s TBM-3W TBF Avenger Torpedo ...
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A letter dated from 1945 found by Suzanne Flament Smith The letter in cursive writing is dated March 4, 1945, with its letterhead marked “United States Navy, Amphibious Training Base in Little ...
The story we found particularly fascinating was about a Brazilian man who rescued a penguin drenched in oil. The bird stayed with João Pereira de Souza for almost a year before returning to sea.
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]
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 ...