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In 2005 a national spotlight was placed upon a mystery of aviation because of the story you are about to read. Having an early and still unfinished copy of this manuscript, Larry Landsman, SCI-FI Channel’s determined and slightly maverick Special Projects Director, pushed for a special documentary to be produced by NBC News Productions and then lobbied Congress through Podesta-Matoon, the nation’s third largest lobbyist, for formal recognition of the subject of this book in Congress. This culminated in a Resolution in Congress sponsored by Republican E. Clay Shaw of Florida, which passed overwhelmingly at 420-2 votes.
This recognition was unique in that it honored 14 US Navy airmen who had vanished 60 years before on December 5, 1945. But they were not war heroes. Nor were they on some crucial mission. The total disappearance of Flight 19 was a bizarre case where 5 large US Navy torpedo bombers utterly vanished while on a routine training mission long after World War II ended. The disappearance of the “Lost Patrol,” “Lost Squadron,” or “Flight 19,” as it is interchangeably called, was by all acceptable standards an “impossible” disappearance. And it is time that the actual facts are brought to light, mysteries both accepted and challenged. Only from this point can a solution finally be found, even 65 years after they flew into oblivion.
December 5, 2005, June 26, 2008 Next
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