As America prepared for its first peacetime Christmas in five years, local airmen vanished on Flight 19 while other soldiers fought the Atlantic for a way home. Two Minnesotans were lost on Flight 19 ...
NORFOLK, Va. — It's an enduring mystery in U.S. military lore and now, seven and half decades old and no closer to being solved. It was December 5, 1945, less than four months after VJ Day marked the ...
On Dec. 5, 1945 — 80 years ago Friday — five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers took off from a Naval Air Station in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on what was to be a three-hour training mission. The planes and ...
The Avenger's story holds two of history's most gripping tales. One is of a young George H.W. Bush, shot down over the Pacific and rescued after watching his crewmates die. The other is the chilling, ...
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