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Disappearance Of Flight 19: A Short Story Of The Bermuda Triangle

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Another story of the Bermuda Triangle is also the strange disappearance of the ship the Marine Sulfur Queen. The ship was built in 1944 as a T2 tanker whose purpose was to ship oil during World War II (Bhattacharya, 2015). However, once the war had come to an end, the ship had been altered to instead ship molten sulfur. For this to be possible, the ship had to be remodeled internally, adding on huge sulphur carrying tanks. The tanks were meant to be kept at high temperature as well so that the sulfur would remain molten. The two hundred fifty-four foot ship had a crew of thirty-nine who departed from Beaumont, Texas on February second, 1963 (Gaddis, 1964). The ship carried over fifteen thousand tons of sulfur in its tanks and a crew of …show more content…

Flight 19, the name give to a group of five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers, took off in the early afternoon on December fifth, 1945. The five planes “were scheduled to tackle a three-hour exercise known as ‘Navigation Problem Number One.’ Their triangular flight plan called for them to head east from the Florida coast and conduct bombing runs at a place called Hens and Chickens Shoals. They would then turn north and proceed over Grand Bahama Island before changing course a third time and flying southwest back to base” (Andrews, 2015). Save for one plane carrying two crewmembers, each torpedo had a crew of three men, most of which that had logged three hundred hours of air time in their careers. Flight 19 was led by a pilot by the name of Lieutenant Charles C. Taylor, “an experienced pilot and veteran of several combat missions in World War II’s Pacific Theater”. Things had started out smoothly when Flight 19, the planes arriving at the Hens and Chickens Shoals at about 2:30 PM and dropping bombs without any incident, “But shortly after the patrol turned north for the second leg of its journey, something very strange

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To appeal to logos she uses a fair amount of facts and statistics, “In the Army Air Forces, or AAF, there were 52,651 stateside aircraft accidents over the course of the war, killing 14,903 personnel. Though some of these personnel were probably on coastal patrol and other duties, it can be presumed that the vast majority were trainees, killed without ever seeing a combat theater. In the three months in which Phil’s men trained as a crew, 3,041 AAF planes--more than 33 per day--met with accidents stateside, killing nine men per day. In subsequent months, death tallies exceeding 500 were common. In August 1943, 590 airmen would die stateside, 19 per day (61).”

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THE UNTOLD TRUTH OF THE 332ND PURSUIT SQUADRON USAACE NCOA 15ZSLC 15-002 SFC JOHNSON We’ve all heard of the Tuskegee airmen in some way. Sometimes in the race to capture a large audience, Hollywood film adaptations neglect the less romantic truths of what transpired. Because of this, facts become obscured or completely omitted altogether. The 332nd fighter group was composed of the 99th, 100th, 301st, and 302nd pursuit squadrons who were once thought to be part of an experimental aviation program that was not intended to actually work.

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They only saw one enemy fighter in the far distance during their first mission on November 7, 1942. They were one of eight out of 14 planes that flew the mission and none of the designated targets were hit because of poor calibrating through cloud cover. Morgan remembered that they had no mission that was a “milk run”. He believed “the secret to a successful B-17 mission was tight formations - so tight that the wings often nearly touched in flight. That way, we were able to put out an amazing amount of firepower”.2 Every time they and any other B-17 bomber flew over enemy territory they were shot at.

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During their 6 year career, the Tuskegee Airmen had the lowest loss of bombers throughout their 179 bomber escorts with a loss of only 25 bombers (“Tuskegee Airmen Squadron Conducts Successful Missions during World War II”). As they became more well know, people only thought of them as pilots. Alton Hornsby stated that “The name Tuskegee Airmen is used most often to refer to combat aviators, but the group also included bombardiers, navigators, maintenance crews, and support staff” (“Tuskegee Airmen”). This shows how the Tuskegee Airmen’s success was not only in combat but also in other aviation-related fields. Throughout the war, they destroyed over 262 aircraft, 950 land vehicles, and 41 boats, for these actions the Tuskegee Airmen were awarded over 866 military medals in total (“Tuskegee Airmen Squadron Conducts Successful Missions during World War II”).

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The planes were unreliable and unsafe, but the pilots had neither the time or material to fix them so they hoped for the best and worked on getting them into the war zone of Palestine. The Air Transport Command (ATC), was responsible for carrying the dismantled planes, the guns, and other weaponry to Israel. The first trip was made by a Skymaster airplane to Be’er Tuvia, and landed on March 31st 1948. Many of the pilots, who would later fly in the war, first flew to Israel as pilots for the ACT, for these MACHAL veterans, this was their first glimpse of the land they were about to go risk their lives to protect. One such pilot was Freddy Fredkins an ex WWII pilot, from England.

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The Airmen's job was to protect the bomber at all

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Over the course of WW2, the Tuskegee Airmen fought against the Nazi’s and their allies, and among other things, performed the critical role of escorting bomber planes throughout missions. Bomber planes were the planes that the US Air Force mainly used to bomb and fight the Nazis. The Tuskegee Airmen ran hundreds of missions, and along with protecting fighting planes, they shot about 261 enemy aircraft down (The Editors of Encyclopedia

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At the beginning of the war, many accidents were due to mechanical problems with planes, bad weather and errors in navigation. Louie called the B-24 that they flew on a “Flying Coffin.” “Flying the B-24, one of the world’s heaviest planes, was like wrestling a bear” (Hillenbrand 55). On Thursday, May 27, 1943, Louie, his friend Phil and Cuppernill were headed to Honolulu for their day off. Before they left, a lieutenant flagged them down and told them there were going a mission to search for a missing pilot.

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The stories of those who survived their flights are useful in piecing together the various events of the battle. One of the most successful bombers was Lieutenant Richard Best: he was able to hit two carriers on the same day. His success was in part due to his plane being unharmed, due to the sacrifice of the accompanying torpedo squadrons. (PG303). His hits effectively wiped out two Kidō

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As well as being referred to as, “The Black Eagles.” “Their primary missions consisted of escorting bombers while fighting off other fighter planes, they made their mark in southern Europe and eventually as far as Berlin” (“Tuskegee Airmen”). “The performances of Chief Alfred Anderson, Benjamin O. Davis, and Daniel “chappie” James, helped pave the way for the desegregation of the U.S. military. These airmen reflect the struggle of African Americans to achieve equal rights, not only on legal attacks on a system that wants them to fail, but through non-violent techniques aimed at segregation in the military” (“Tuskegee Airmen- why significant?”). These flyers set the bar high receiving 150 flying crosses and destroyed 103 enemy aircraft.

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They escorted the bombers to their targets and back to the

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Even if Mary Celeste wasn’t found in the Bermuda region and was in other part of the Atlantic, many conspirators associate the case with the Triangle itself. The case of the unnamed ship associated with the Ellen Austin crews: in 1881, the crew of The Ellen Austin, an American ship which used to sail between New York and London, found a mysterious deserted ship. The captain ordered to some of his crew to guide the ship back to New York alongside the Ellen Austin, however the two vessels were separated by a huge storm and the unnamed ship with part of the Ellen Austin crew were gone. The Ellen Austin found the unnamed ship one more time but once again no single soul was on board. The captain ordered some of the crew to take the vessel again, but once again the unnamed ship vanished and this time she was never found by the Ellen Austin or other ship after that.

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Topic: The Bermuda Triangle General Purpose: To persuade Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience that Bermuda Triangle has some scientific reasons which effects a lot of mysterious incidents. Central idea: Despite it is a dangerous and mysterious place, but Bermuda Triangle has so much of attractive places to visit. INTRODUCTION I. Bermuda Triangle is a part which is situated in the North of Atlantic Oceon. The Bermuda Triangle covers about 500, 000 miles of the sea around the world. The Bermuda Triangle is roughly bounded by three places.

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Throughout history there have exist a lot of theories that could explain the weird phenomena that occurs in the waters of The Bermuda Triangle. Since Christopher Columbus was exploring the waters of the Atlantic Ocean he described in his trips about how he saw strange events happening in those waters. There has been reports of disappearances of dozens of ships, planes and persons all gone into oblivion where no one could tell how or when it occurred, they could just acknowledge the fact that they were gone forever, and that there was no concrete answer for what happened. The Bermuda Triangle also called the Devils Triangle because of the reputation it has gained throughout the years is located between Puerto Rico, Miami, and Bermuda, it covers roughly 500,000 square miles in the Atlantic Ocean, this famous waters have attracted the eye of many because of the mystery that is hidden in those waters, even though after digging in some of the most famous cases you could see how the mystery disappears because the proof of the accidents showed that they were not on the area at the moment it happened, they were actually found, or

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