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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 Boeing TB-17G Flying Fortress built as a B-17G-70-BO (43-37700) [142] of the 325th Combat Crew Training Squadron, [133] Avon Park Army Airfield, Florida, crashed six miles south of Ridgeland, South Carolina after the number-two (port inner) engine caught fire at 10,000 feet during a flight from Stewart Field in New York to its home base in ...
On July 28, 1945, a B-25 Mitchell bomber of the United States Army Air Forces crashed into the north side of the Empire State Building in New York City while flying in thick fog. The crash killed fourteen people (three crewmen and eleven people in the building), and an estimated twenty-four others were injured.
Flight 19 was a training flight of five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers that disappeared on 5 December 1945, while over the Atlantic. The squadron's flight plan was scheduled to take them due east from Fort Lauderdale for 141 mi (227 km), north for 73 mi (117 km), and then back over a final 140 mi (225 km) leg to complete the exercise.
During World War II, the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) established numerous airfields in New York for training pilots and aircrews of USAAF fighters and bombers. Most of these airfields were under the command of First Air Force or the Army Air Forces Training Command (AAFTC) (A predecessor of the current-day United States Air Force Air ...
1945 in the United States by state or territory ... Flight 19; G. Gouzenko Affair; J. 1945 Japan–Washington flight ... Miss America 1945; N. List of The New York ...
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 ...
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)