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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 U.S. Navy PBM-1 of Patrol Squadron 56 (VP-56) in 1940. A PBM-5 on the deck of USS Norton Sound in April 1945 off Saipan A U.S. Navy PBM of Fleet Air Wing 6 is hoisted aboard the seaplane tender USS Curtiss (AV-4) after a mine-hunting patrol off North Korea during the Korean War (1950-1953). PBM Mariner leaves a wake (August 1943)
Oldest continuously active aircraft squadron in the U.S. Navy. Ranger's VB squadron was redesignated VS-41(2nd) to replace VS-41(1st) when it was redesignated a VF squadron (VF-42) VS-42 Establishment and disestablishment unknown listed in 'Status of Naval Aircraft' for July 1937. [20] Assigned to USS Ranger as one of two VS squadrons VS-5
The Navy Fighter Weapons School, Carrier Airborne Early Warning Weapons School and the Airborne Electronic Attack Weapons School train selected U. S. Navy Naval Aviators and Naval Flight Officers (NFO) in instructional techniques and in advanced tactics in their respective aircraft, qualifying them for assignment to their respective wing ...
25 July 1945: A two-aircraft detachment was sent to operate with the Third Fleet to provide Dumbo coverage during the carrier-based attacks on the Japanese home islands. 28–30 August 1945: Squadron ground personnel and four flight crews arrived in Tokyo Bay aboard USS Cumberland Sound, part of the first group of Allied warships to enter Tokyo ...
VPB-24 was a Patrol Bombing Squadron of the U.S. Navy.The squadron was established as Patrol Squadron 9-S (VP-9S) on 7 January 1930, redesignated Patrol Squadron 9-B (VP-9B) on 1 October 1930, redesignated Patrol Squadron 9-F (VP-9F) on 26 October 1931, redesignated Patrol Squadron 9 (VP-9) on 1 October 1937, redesignated Patrol Squadron 12 (VP-12) on 1 July 1939, redesignated Patrol Squadron ...
Another version of the badge, with Greek motto misspelled. VF-114 was established as Bombing Fighter Squadron (VBF-19) on 20 January 1945, at NAS Alameda, California.Soon thereafter, Bombing Fighter Squadron, VBF-19 moved to NAS North Island, California, where it first flew the Grumman F6F Hellcat and then the Vought F4U-4 Corsair.
Torpedo Squadron 8 (VT-8) was a United States Navy squadron of World War II torpedo bombers. VT-8 was assigned initially to the air group of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet, joining the ship shortly after her commissioning in October 1941. After heavy losses in the Battle of Midway, VT-8 was assigned to USS Saratoga.