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Lost in the Bermuda Triangle... Perhaps the most famous unsolved mystery...
Lost in the Bermuda Triangle... Perhaps the most famous unsolved mystery...
Item # 712813
December 07, 1945
TAUNTON DAILY GAZETTE, Mass., December 7, 1945
* Bermuda Triangle Flight 19 disappearance
* 5 TBM Avenger torpedo bombers
* One of the most famous unsolved mysteries
The front page is a two column heading: "Sea and Air Armada Ordered Out in Search Of Missing Navy Planes" (see images). Coverage on one of the more bizarre mysteries in American history, particularly with the controversy about the existence of a "Bermuda Triangle", and this incident figuring in Spielberg's famous movie.
I suspect this to be a very rare item because there was really no reason to save it at the time.
Complete with 24 pages, light toning and minor wear at the margins, generally very nice.
Wikipedia has a lengthy article on the disappearance of 5 naval training planes lost over the "Bermuda Triangle" in 1945, introduced with: "Flight 19 was the designation of five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers that disappeared on December 5, 1945, during a United States Navy-authorized over-water navigation training flight from Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Trouble of an unknown nature plagued the senior aviator designated to observe Flight 19 during this assignment; first with a late arrival requesting to be relieved, then later with complete confusion and irrational fears which further worsened the students' situation by mistakenly leading them away from land. All 14 airmen on the flight were lost, as well as 13 crew members of a PBM Mariner flying boat, which may have exploded in midair while searching for the flight. Navy investigators concluded that Flight 19 may have become disoriented and ditched in rough seas when the aircraft ran out of fuel, while the PBM may have been a victim of mechanical failure. A fictionalized version of Flight 19 is featured in the 1977 science fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind."
Category: The 20th Century
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