At 2:10 p.m. on December 5, 1945, five U.S. Navy Avenger
torpedo-bombers comprising Flight 19 took off from the Ft.
Lauderdale Naval Air Station in Florida on a routine three-
hour training mission.

After having completed their objective, the flight was to go
due east for an additional 67 miles, then turn north for 73
miles, and back to the air station after that, totaling a
distance of 120 miles. They never returned.

Two hours after the flight began, the leader of the squadron,
who had been flying in the area for more than six months,
reported that his compass and backup compass had failed
and that his position was unknown.

After two more hours of confused messages from the fliers,
a distorted radio transmission from the squadron leader was
heard at 6:20 p.m., apparently calling for his men to prepare
to ditch their aircraft simultaneously because of lack of fuel.

 
The crew of “Little Joe”, with Sanford G. Roy circled in red.   Defense (POW/MIA) Accounting Agency.

According to military officials this week, the remains of a World
War II airman were identified 80 years after his plane was shot
down during a bombing mission in Germany.

In the spring of 1944, U.S. Army Air Force Tech. Sgt. Sanford G.
Roy, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, was assigned to the 732nd Bombardment Squadron in the European Theater. 

A news release from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency 
said Roy and several other airmen were aboard the B-24H
Liberator "Little Joe" on a bombing mission to Brunswick,
Germany on April 8.

The plane was shot down by German forces and other airmen
flying near the aircraft did not report seeing any crew members
exiting "Little Joe" before it crashed. His name was engraved
on the Walls of the Missing at the Netherlands American
Cemetery. 

Sanford G. Roy.

NAVAL AIR STATION WHIDBEY ISLAND, Wash. —Lt. Cmdr.
Lyndsay P. Evans, 31, left, a naval flight officer, and Lt. 
Serena N. Wileman, 31, a naval aviator, were killed Tuesday
afternoon, Oct. 15, when their EA-18G Growler crashed near
Mount Rainier during a routine training flight at around 3:30
PM Pacific time. 

The September 11 attacks were the deadliest terrorist attacks in
human history, causing the deaths of 2,996 people, including
2,977 victims and 19 hijackers who committed murder–suicide.

Thousands more were injured, and long-term health effects have
arisen as a consequence of the attacks. New York City took the
brunt of the death toll when the Twin Towers of the World Trade
Center complex in Lower Manhattan were attacked, with an
estimated 1,600 victims from the North Tower and around a
thousand from the South Tower.

Two hundred miles southwest in Arlington County, Virginia,
another 125 were killed in the Pentagon. The remaining 265
fatalities included the ninety-two passengers and crew of
American Airlines Flight 11, the sixty-five aboard United
Airlines Flight 175, the sixty-four on American Airlines Flight
77 and the forty-four who boarded United Airlines Flight 93.

The attack on the World Trade Center’s North Tower alone
made the September 11 attacks the deadliest act of terrorism
in human history.
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On July 2, 1937, the Lockheed aircraft carrying American aviator
Amelia Earhart and navigator Frederick Noonan is reported
missing near Howland Island in the Pacific.

The pair were attempting to fly around the world when they lost
their bearings during the most challenging leg of the global journey:
Lae, New Guinea, to Howland Island, a tiny island 2,227 nautical
miles away, in the center of the Pacific Ocean.