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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 355
EAN: 9780595453252
ISBN: 0595453252
Label: iUniverse, Inc.
Manufacturer: iUniverse, Inc.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 130
Publication Date: June 19, 2007
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Release Date: June 19, 2007
Studio: iUniverse, Inc.
Sales Rank: 1743297
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Washington orders military to develop hurricane-warning system. Navy crews back from Pacific chosen for task. Squadron 114 forms at Masters Field, Miami where they train and track storms from Barbados in the Eastern Caribbean to Honduras and Belize in the west. Then in September Hurricane # IX takes aim at Miami and the Hurricane Hunter’s base. The storm hits them with hurricane winds clocked at 139 mph.
We also hear the drama, from island people, over short-wave radio, through panic-stricken voices as they describe their own doom.
Lost in the Bermuda Triangle.
Flight 19 made up of five TBM Avengers with fourteen airmen aboard take off from NAS Ft. Lauderdale at 2:00 pm on the afternoon of December 5, 1945. They are on a routine navigation, bombing and strafing exercise. Flight leader Lt. Charles Taylor takes a trailing position with one of the students in the lead.
At 3:40 pm a muddled distress call is heard from the student leader. Lt. Taylor takes the lead, but is disoriented—believes they are over the Florida Keys, when in fact they are likely over the Bahamas Banks.
We follow Flight 19 minute by minute as the tragedy unfolds.
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Written from the perspective of 'being there', join, Tom Barnes in his rich-with-history account of his experiences as a navy pilot working hurricane patrol in 1944. At an altitude of 28,000 feet, Barnes describes the beauty of the 'beast', and the birth of a hurricane, as well as the intricate maze of an instrument panel. Charting storms in the Devil's Triangle during hurricane season was definitely not for sissies. Suspense and humor are joined together, along with a picture perfect depiction of ... Read More
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View A Hurricane At 20,000 Feet
Separated from his navy squadron which was sent to the Pacific, the author found himself in Florida at the Jacksonville Municipal Airport with its long runways able to handle a heavy bomber outfit. With a great deal of skill he relates his experiences during 1945 as World War II was winding down. True- to- life anecdotes and episodes move the story along.
Sent to Masters Field in Miami, after Washington ordered the military to develop a hurricane ... Read More
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