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The FLIGHT 19 Complete Naval Report - Volume 1, & Volume 2 by Andrew Marocco On December 5, 1945, five TBM Avengers, known as Flight 19, took off from NAS Fort Lauderdale on a training mission. After becoming disoriented and lost, radio communication ceased. Flight 19 was never seen or heard from again. Thus, cementing Flight 19, as the cornerstone of the Bermuda Triangle Legend. Seventy years later, it is still a mystery. Part of the reason could be blamed on the fact that the general public has never seen the most important key to the mystery: A published version of the “original navy investigation”. But now all of that has changed. Andy Marocco, founder of AeroQuest.org, has compiled and organized all of the “original documents” of the 1945 investigation from government microfilm and published them in a series of book volumes, known as the FLIGHT 19 Naval Report. For the first time, teachers, students and researchers will finally have access to all the “original documents” of the Flight 19 investigation in a “printed standard” for collaboration, discussion and reference. It is believed that the FLIGHT 19 Naval Report volumes will become “key tools” for the next generation of Flight 19 investigators to help solve the greatest aviation mystery of all time. Volume 1 of the FLIGHT 19 Naval Report: The Testimony, the experts and personnel that testified in the Naval Hearings of December 1945, share their intimate knowledge and opinions about Flight 19. Volume 1 references the planes, the men, their training, the mission and ultimately the unsuccessful search and rescue. Volume 2 of the FLIGHT 19: The Exhibits. Features & Details
Softcover - Volume 1: $24.95 Softcover - Volume 2: $24.95 ALL PROCEEDS FROM THESE BOOKS BENEFIT "PROJECT MARINER" AN EXPEDITION OF THE NAVAL AIR STATION FORT LAUDERDALE MUSEUM Andy Marocco is an Aviation Historian who founded AeroQuest.org, a dedicated volunteer group of individuals, who are interested in the investigation of military aircraft wrecks. In 2015, Mr. Marocco successfully identified and solved the mystery of a WWII TBM Avenger that was found in 1989 in the Everglades. Mr. Marocco is also on staff at the NAS Ft. Lauderdale Museum, as a special projects coordinator. Currently he is working on Project Mariner, a search for the PBM-5 Mariner (Training-49) that was dispatched form NAS Banana River on the evening of December 5, 1945 to look for FLIGHT 19. The PBM Mariner also vanished mysteriously the same day as FLIGHT 19 and was never heard from again either. Mr. Marocco and his volunteer team are currently going on expeditions to the last known location of where the PBM Mariner was believed to have disappeared and are mapping the sea floor with side scan sonar.
Author website http://www.aeroquest.org
Ken Kaye is a former newspaper reporter who specialized in aviation and weather. He initially worked for the Sun Newspapers in Cleveland, Ohio, then the Sun Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Among the big stories he covered: The tumultuous 2004 and 2005 hurricane seasons and the crash of a ValuJet airliner in the Everglades in 1996. Ken also has authored five books, among them "The East Side of Lauderdale," "Final Revenge," "Stuck on 75" and "Gash in the Glades." His latest novel, "The Wrong Hangar," explores the possibility that Amelia Earhart didn't perish in the South Pacific in 1937 but rather returned to the United States and led a secret life. Ken is currently working on his sixth novel.
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John was stationed at NAS Fort Lauderdale in 1945 and 1946. He was working on the base when Flight 19 disappeared. His friend Walter Parpart had just filled in for the previous radioman on FT-28 . John was the crew chief for the ready plane which was a stripped down TBF Avenger and responsible for search and rescue after the Coast Guard had transferred out. Robert Ford Cox had been in communication with Flight 19 while flying south along the coast. John remembers him as being a very good pilot. After he landed with his training flight, Cox immediately asked to fly out to the northeast where he felt he would find Flight 19. John was told to start up the ready plane. After 15 min he was given the “cut engine” sign from the tower and returned to his quarters. The next morning he participated in the search.
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