Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976)
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IT WAS ON THIS DAY IN 1903
MISSING IN ACTION ON THIS DAY IN 1944
In 1942, at the peak of his civilian career, swing era bandleader Glenn Miller decided
to join the war effort during World War ll. He was first placed in the U.S. Army and then transferred to the Army Air Force where initially formed a large marching band that was to be the core of a network of service orchestras. While he was traveling to entertain
U.S. troops in France, the single-engine Army Air Force UC-64 Norseman (similar to above) carrying Major Glenn Miller disappeared in thick for over the English Channel
and no trace of the aircrew, passengers or the plane has ever been found. Miller’s
status is… missing in action. Â
THE SURPRISE ATTACK, 70 YEARS AGO TODAY!
THE ‘’LOST SQUADRON’’ ~ ON THIS DAY IN 1945
Portrait of legendary Lost Squadron in front of #28, the lead plane of "Flight
19" that supposedly vanished into the Bermuda Triangle shortly after WWII.
Flight 19 was the designation of five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers that disappeared
on Wednesday, December 5, 1945 during a Navy-authorized navigation training flight from Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale, Florida. All 14 airmen on the flight were lost,
as were all 13 crew members of a PMB Mariner flying boat assumed to have exploded
in mid-air while searching for the flight.
Navy investigators could not determine the cause for the loss of Flight 19 but, said the aircraft may have become disoriented and ditched in rough seas after running out of fuel. In the last decade, the search for remains of the squadron has been expanded
to include an area farther east, into the Atlantic Ocean with no results. The lost flight remains one of the great aviation legends of all time and was featured in the 1977
Steven Spielberg science fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
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