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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.
United States Army Air Forces Douglas A-26C-35-DT Invader 44-35553 on a training flight collided in mid-air with Eastern Air Lines Flight 45 from Washington, D.C. to Columbia, South Carolina, a Douglas DC-3-201C NC25647 at roughly 3,100 feet (940 m), 11.9 miles (19.2 km) west-northwest of Florence, South Carolina at 2:36 pm. The A-26's vertical ...
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.
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)
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
Shoichi Yokoi was a sergeant in the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second World War who was one of the last three Japanese holdouts to be found after the end of hostilities in 1945. He disappeared in July 1944 during the Second Battle of Guam , [ 154 ] and on the evening of January 24, 1972, he was discovered alive in the jungle.
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 ...
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