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The Air Ferry Routes of WWII, including North Atlantic Route, South Atlantic Route and South Pacific Route. Although many air route surveys of the North Atlantic had been made in the 1930s, by the outbreak of World War II in Europe, civilian trans-Atlantic air service was just becoming a reality. It was soon suspended in favor of military ...
The Torpedo Alley, or Torpedo Junction, off North Carolina, is one of the graveyards of the Atlantic Ocean, named for the high number of attacks on Allied shipping by German U-boats in World War II. Almost 400 ships were sunk, mostly during the Second Happy Time in 1942, and over 5,000 people were killed, many of whom were civilians and ...
Oak Beach is a small community and census-designated place located near the eastern end of Jones Beach Island, a barrier island between the Atlantic Ocean and the Great South Bay of Long Island. [1] The community is part of the village of Babylon in Suffolk County, New York , United States.
The remains of at least 11 victims were found in the Gilgo Beach area though it remains unclear if they are all the work of the same killer. Many were sex workers who offered escort services on ...
The development comes more than a decade after four bodies were found within a quarter mile in Gilgo Beach in December 2010. The victims have been identified as Maureen Brainard Barnes, Melissa ...
Authorities have not charged anyone in connection with the victim's murder. The Gilgo Beach serial killings spanned from the early 1990s to 2011 and many of the victims' bodies were found between ...
The winter of 1942-43 presented major problems all along the North Atlantic Transport Route. A high accident rate due to weather was experienced beginning in September 1942 and it continued to climb. On 22 November Air Transport Command suspended the transportation of passengers across the North Atlantic for the duration of the winter. The ...
Dismembered body parts found scattered across New York’s Long Island were identified by their families and police on Monday as a man and woman from Westchester.. Police in Suffolk County ...