Formerly Security Classified Correspondence, 1940-1946. , which are arranged using the Navy Filing Manual, so the suggested filing designations are a good place to start. What do you make of that? What most people do not know is that Senator Lundeen was under investigation at the time of his death., A G-Man [meaning an FBI agent], a Department of Justice attorney, and an FBI secretary were on the plane with him, and all were killed., The Department of Justice probably will deny that they were shadowing the Minnesota Senator, but the fact is that at least one of them definitely was.". Some of the passengers were locked in a struggle of some kind. If these directions had been heard or carried out we are certain this flight would have returned to base safely. And this one most certainly named him. 16, USS Liscome Bay CVE56 War Damage Report No. Besides these records that directly relate the topic of Flight 19, there may be other series in record groups that are overlooked because they are not as well known and somewhat difficult to use. You must do this now. Sadly, this was only the first part of this tragedy. In addition to the records at the National Archives in College Park, there may be other relevant records relating to Flight 19 that were created by local naval air stations and the regional naval district. You MUST meet the following requirements: EDUCATION: A. The accident reports for the aircraft can be located in the series titled General Correspondence, 1943-45 in the Records of the Bureau of Aeronautics (Record Group 72). WebFlight 19 (Part 3) - full transcript | Podcast9. Maddow: It's Saturday, August 31st, 1940. 00:29:51 - Molotov Cocktails, stealth skiing, and a ruined Birthday party for Stalin? This was crusading, controversial columnist Drew Pearson. He kept it for himself. RECOMMENDATIONS: added ENGINES emphasis is placed on importance of proper navigation GEN NATURE E-2 & lost plane procedure. flight 19 radio transcript. Efforts were made immediately to contact flight by radio & direct to fly course of 270 degrees or into sun. The majority of the series in RG 313 still are unprocessed and undescribed. ENGINES RECOMMENDATIONS: Added emphasis is being placed on GEN NATURE E-2 importance of proper navigation & lost plane procedure SPEC TYPE ACC (6) Lost - fuel exhaustion CO: Concur with report of board. On the other side of the story, not only were trained personnel lost, but so were several planes. 00:00:06,180 --> 00:00:10,560. An intensive search was carried out starting A/C MODEL & NO PARACHUTE daybreak 6 DEC 1945 & securing 1527, 10 DEC 1945. Among the search and rescue units were two PBM-5 Martin Mariners, large seaplanes, from Naval Air Station Banana River, FL that took off at 7:27 PM. An example of these records are the Central Subject Files, 1942-1945 of the 7th Naval District. The loss of the planes and crew of Flight 19 remains a mystery to this day. And the flight that he was about to board also happened to include multiple Justice Department personnel who would be flying alongside him. 75 years later, mystery remains over Navy Flight 19 which disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle. And Senator Lundeen is at work, even though it's Labor Day Weekend. That denial from the Justice Department, as emphatic as it was, it didnt hold up. Witnesses say, in fact, they heard the engines roaring full tilt right up until the moment of impact. Book your Ticket with Delta Airlines for Picnic Place. A/S Rescure Unite 4 alerted all stations & everything possible was done to get flight back safely. Now, do you think thats sufficient basis to keep these facts from the American public? Flight 19 was a group of aircraft that mysteriously went missing off the coast of Florida in 1945. CO: Concur with report of board. Radio Reporter: In this country now, in the nations capitol at Washington. It means they know something they don't want us to know. CLASSIFICATION OF ACCIDENT CAUSES D R A-B O AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT D R A-B OTHER 100% UNDETERMINED CARD NAVAIR 339C, DATE HOUR LOCATION PURPOSE SERIAL NUMBER 5-Dec-45 APPROX 1904 AT SEA NAVIGATION 60-45 PILOT NAME, RANK & SERVICE GROUP ASSIGNED CEILING VISIBILITY WIND/ FORCE DARKNESS NIGHT HRS NIGHT HRS GERBER F.J., 2ndLt, USMCR VTB-1 UNLIMITED8 8 W 8 NONE UNIT AIRCRAFT ASSIGNED WEATHER @ ACCIDENT INSRUMENT INSTRUMENT TYPE CLEARANCE VTB-1, USNAS FT LAUDERDALE HOURS HOURS CONTACT TOTAL HOURS TOTAL HRS THIS MODEL TOTAL HOURS LAST 3 MONTHS HOURS THIS MODEL LAST 3 MONTHS TIME IN FLIGHT MANEUVER OR ALT OF MANEUVER ANGLE OF IMPACT, STOP DIST, EST SPEED 360.6 61.8 71.4 61.8 Approx. 47 (1935) Precedence of Forces in Parades, General Orders for the Regulation of the Navy Yard Washington, D.C. - 1833-1850, German Commanders Wilhelm Keitel and Alfred Jodl on the Invasion of Normandy in 1944, German Report on the Allied Invasion of Normandy, German Submarine Activities on the Atlantic Coast, Glossary of U.S. 4 0 obj Speculation, but no proof. Ghost-written by a senior, paid agent of Hitler's government operating in America, a man to whom Senator Lundeen had grown very close. Help for civilians and veterans seeking information and military records, past and present. He didn't sell it. Young: as a way to end Lundeen's life unnaturally. Six Aircraft Accident Cards (NAVAIR339C) for the lead pilot, four instructors, and the search aircraft pilot. Maddow: Senator Ernest Lundeen's last two weeks on earth were stressful. in the Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel (Record Group 24), there are casualty reports filed under NAS Fort Lauderdale (Box 109) and under NAS Banana River (Box 108). There is another copy of the Board of Investigation in file units Type of Command, Training, Naval Air Advanced Training Command, Jacksonville, FL Board of Investigation into Missing TBMs and PBM Airplanes December 7, 1945 Part I and Part II (Box 373). If these directions had been heard and carried out, we are certain this flight would have returned to base safely. Her name was Margaret Carson. 4. Goddard Space Flight Center. The train crew heard him yelling about 20 miles down the tracks. Maddow: What were those FBI and Justice Department personnel doing on board that flight? But something is definitely wrong. Now, of course, there were no survivors of the crash to tell anyone anything about what had happened on board the plane. Drew Pearson plays this incredibly important role in blowing the lid off of this. Cunningham, US Navy Relative to events on Wake Island in December 1941, and subsequent related events, Narrative of Joshua Davis an American Citizen 1811, Narrative of the Capture, Sufferings and Escape of Capt. She races to the scene of the crash. Approx 1600, radio THELANDER, Arther H., S1C, USNR Missing A messages intercepted that led us to believe this BALUK, Burt E., Jr., S1C, USNR Missing A flight was lost in vicinity of Bahamas. Painter: And all of a sudden, all we heard was, vroooooooom! Hart: We have a number of the biggest figures in American politics in this period, they all fall under the spell of this sort of Nazi propaganda operation. But that supposed report from the policeman, it was not a totally incongruous detail. The Influenza Epidemic of 1918 by Carla R. Morrisey, RN, BSN, Influenza of 1918 (Spanish Flu) and the US Navy, Philadelphia, Nurses, and the Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918. It was on the return when things took a different turn. And there's a reason to know this history now. <> They let him out of the cold car. 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Maddow: Hidden away in a refrigerated train car. But John Flannery has lived in the area for almost 20 years. (80-G-443876) Flight 19 Bermuda Triangle : A US Navy Mystery On 5 December 1945, a flight of five U.S. Navy TBM Avenger torpedo bombers took off from Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale for a routine navigation and bombing training mission over the Bahamas; although When she hears the news, Senator Lundeen's secretary decides shes gonna go there, to try to find him. The board also concluded that neither the pilot nor the co-pilot were actively controlling the plane when it crashed. 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Among the newly added series of digitized records to the National Archives Catalog is National Archives Publication M1657: Folder A17: Fort Lauderdale-5 TBM Crash-December 5, 1945 THRU PBM-1946, , a single reel of microfilm that is part of the series, in the Records of Naval Districts and Shore Establishments (Record Group 181) that are in the custody of the. Intensive search was carried out starting daybreak A/C MODEL & NO PARACHUTE 6 DEC 1945 & securing 1527, 10 DEC. #TBM-1C 45714 USED Results negative. Lost of Flight 19 Official Accident Reports - history.navy.mil Hart: This is a speech that's sort of unlike most that Lundeen gives. 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Recollections of Capture by the Germans, Imprisonment, and Escape of Lieutenant Edouard Victor Isaacs, U.S.N. Radio Reporter: He thinks reporters and newspapers who have helped to indict the defendants are engaged in a dirty business, and predicted that the day will soon come when they will all regret it. Because these are administrative files, they are arranged using the. Our Senior Executive Producers are Cory Gnazzo and Laura Conaway. WebThe last transmission from Flight 19 took place at 19:04 when Lt. Cox was on air communicating with Flight 19, until their signal got weaker. Small plane disappears in Bermuda Triangle with family aboard. Then he's due to change planes in Pittsburgh for connecting flights all the way back home to Minnesota. Maddow: The plane that crashed was a new DC-3. He lay in state at the state capitol. Consumers can buy, sell and service vehicles digitally or through our 188 coast to coast locations. Then on Monday, on Labor Day, he's got a big speech that he's planning to deliver. The Battles of Cape Esperance 11 October 1942 and Santa Cruz Islands 26 October 1942, Battles of Savo Island and Eastern Solomons, Boat Pool 15-1 Manila, P.I. If directions had been heard and carried out, we are certain this flight would have returned to base safely. If youre unsure about anything or want to know more, call the ACCC on 1300 303 143. Maddow: So, the Senator seems to have been in a near-panic about being exposed in the days leading up to him stepping on board that flight a flight in which he, quite literally, was carrying a speech that was written for him by a Nazi agent who had just been exposed in the press. That's the speech Lundeen was heading home to give on Labor Day weekend, when his flight crashed on its first leg out of Washington. Its engines certainly werent knocked out. It was a speech that was full of praise for Germany under Hitler. 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Some people went into the field, younger people, and then were discovering things they could never forget. There is no plaque, there is no marker designating it as the site of a deadly plane crash. The records of the 7th Naval District (Florida) and the naval air stations that were involved in the incident are in the custody of the, of the 7th Naval District. That investigation found that while there was bad weather there was thunder and lightning and some heavy rainfall in the area there was nothing so unusual about the storm that the plane shouldn't have been cleared to fly. CAUSE M-1 POOR NAVIGATION Training dept directed to intensify training in lost ANAYLISIS (Z) POOR NAVIGATION plane procedure & stress to pilots necessity TALLY for carrying out correct procedure when lost. And Senator Lundeen, of course, he never delivered that speech. And he didn't just keep it for a day, he kept it the whole rest of his life. And that was in part, because it would not end up being just Senator Ernest Lundeen who was caught up in it. He had to escape one such angry crowd hidden away in a refrigerated train car. The accident reports for the aircraft can be located in the series titled. One of the Flight 19 planes made it back to land, according to Florida resident Graham Stikelether, who was interviewed for an episode of Historys Greatest Mysteries, released last year. It was the only one of the four planes that did not reach its intended target, instead crashing in an empty field just outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania, about 150 miles northwest of Washington, D.C. A/S rescue task unit 4 alerted all stations & everything possible was dont to get this fkight back safely. AA11: Turning right, American 11. Sound design by Tarek Fouda. TALLY CLASSIFICATION OF ACCIDENT CAUSES D R A-B O AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT D R A-B OTHER 100% UNDETERMINED CARD NAVAIR 339C X X, DATE HOUR LOCATION PURPOSE SERIAL NUMBER 5-Dec-45 APPROX 1904 AT SEA NAVIGATION 63-45 PILOT NAME, RANK & SERVICE GROUP ASSIGNED CEILING VISIBILITY WIND/ FORCE DARKNESS NIGHT HRS NIGHT HRS POWERS, E.J. The tragic, mysterious crash of a commercial airliner in the summer of Maddow: Sitting Senators just dont drop dead on a regular basis. Thats when it nosedived. 127 (1869) List of Types of Officers to Mess in Second Ward Room, General Order No. Efforts were made to contact flight by radio & direct to fly course of 270 degrees or into sun. So when the Department of Justice says he wasn't under investigation and we know he was, then they're concealing that he was under investigation and it's being asked in the context of a plane crash. Its powerful stuff. Radio Announcer: Youre about to hear an address delivered before a meeting of the America First Committee in Madison Square Garden in New York City. % Nancy Beck Young: He was on the run for not only his political life, but his actual life. If you want go to this State Park. He's got his head down on his desk, his head is buried in his arms. He, he sort of refuses to support the war effort. Located at the National Archives in College Park, there are two series of correspondence both the Commander, Gulf Sea Frontier and the Commander, Training Command, Atlantic Fleet. May 17, 201702:30. No explanation. On December 5th, shortly after 2 PM, five General Motors TBF It was in perfect repair, it had passed all its checks. He was about 15 at the time. The transcripts were obtained by The New York Times . 292 (1882) Establishment of the Office of Intelligence, General Order No. When she dropped her boss at the airfield for the flight, the Senator's secretary according to some accounts had noticed through the open doorway of the plane that something was happening between the passengers. 3 0 obj The training flight was to take them east and fly near the Bahama Islands and then return to Fort Lauderdale. In the World War II Command Files that are part of the Records of the Chief of Naval Operations (Record Group 38), there is a file unit titled Shore Establishments, Jacksonville Naval Air Station Board of Investigation 5 TBM Avengers 7 December 1945 that includes a copy of the findings of the Board of Investigation (Box 419). On that Saturday morning of the Labor Day weekend, despite the fact that he is so visibly upset, that he is inconsolably crying in his office, the trip is still on. TBM-1C 46325 USED Results negative. His secretary asks him what's wrong, he won't explain. O. John Rogge: I was told that I could make public any evidence of Nazi penetration that I might find, and why did he change his mind? The light red flightpath indicates possible positions between first turn and HF/DF radio triangulation at 17:50. He doesnt appear to be sick, though. 5 - Decorations Awarded By Foreign Governments, Pt. Maddow: This is a story of treachery, deceit and almost unfathomable actions on the part of people who are elected to defend the constitution, but who instead got themselves implicated in a plot to undermine it. Ernest Lundeen, 62 years old, had been on board that flight and he was among the dead. 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The Senator's secretary stays to make sure that hes safely boarded the plane and then she leaves to drive back to D.C. Then as she makes it back to the Capitol, the news comes through. Kearsarge - 19 Jun 1864, Selected Sources on the German Battleship Bismarck, The Sinking of the German Battleship Bismarck as Described in the B.d.U. He wept the whole way. Our Associate Producer is Janmaris Perez. The microfilmed series is a collection of materials that was eventually used in the Navys Board of Investigation including weather observations, the history of the aircraft and engine logs, a rough crash log, radio station logs, preflight forms, communication logs, incident reports, air/sea rescue plans, maps of the search area. <>>> Among the newly added series of digitized records to the National Archives Catalog is National Archives Publication M1657: Folder A17: Fort Lauderdale-5 TBM Crash-December 5, 1945 THRU PBM-1946, a single reel of microfilm that is part of the series Subject Files, 1945-1958 in the Records of Naval Districts and Shore Establishments (Record Group 181) that are in the custody of the National Archives at Fort Worth, TX. A short of list of select filing designations are A17-9 (Naval Courts and Boards), A17-24 (Court of Inquiry), A17-25 (Board of Investigations), L11-1 (Material Loss), the different aircraft types, VTBM1 and VPBM5, and the different naval air stations NA29 - Jacksonville NAS, NA59 - Cocoa and Banana River NAS, and NA106 - Fort Lauderdale NAS. 8:08:54 46R: FDX3258, Roger, uh, fly heading 180 maintain mach 80 or less. When Senator Lundeen boarded that doomed Pennsylvania Central Airlines plane in August 1940, remember that his final destination was back home in Minnesota, where he was slated to deliver a speech on Labor Day weekend. Because two weeks before he got on that plane, he suddenly found himself the apparent subject of a blockbuster newspaper expos. He pressed his case on the radio, and on the senate floor, and at home with his constituents. Senator Ernest Lundeen quickly became one of the loudest and most confident voices inveighing against the U.S. joining the fight. 1 Austrian 6-pounder Howitzer - Plaque, No. Transcripts must be submitted with your application package. Nancy Beck Young: He was on the run for not only his political life, but his actual life. In fact, the senator's secretary herself had reportedly witnessed something along those same lines. And so you have to scratch your head. That speech had been ghost-written for Senator Lundeen. As it is these series have been processed with container lists, so they are more accessible. As an example of this method, using the information from the Board of Investigation, it references the Gulf Sea Frontier and Commander, Training Command, Atlantic Fleet as being contributors of reports in the investigation and recipients of copies of the investigation. I (part II), Building the Navy's Bases, vol. Maddow: In his first stint in Washington, Lundeen had opposed the U.S. getting involved in World War I. TALLY CLASSIFICATION OF ACCIDENT CAUSES D R A-B O AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT D R A-B OTHER 100% UNDETERMINED CARD NAVAIR 339C X X, Lieutenant (jg) Walter G. Jeffrey - Search Aircraft, DATE HOUR LOCATION PURPOSE SERIAL NUMBER 5-Dec-45 UNKNOWN UNKNOWN EMERGENCY SEARCH ATU-11-45 PILOT NAME, RANK & SERVICE GROUP ASSIGNED CEILING VISIBILITY WIND FORCE DARKNESS NIGHT HRS NIGHT HRS JEFFREY, WALTER G., USN, Lt(jg) VPB2-ATU3 6000 8 270 10 YES UNIT AIRCRAFT ASSIGNED WEATHER @ ACCIDENT INSRUMENT INSTRUMENT TYPE CLEARANCE VPB2-ATU3 NAS BANANA RIVER HOURS HOURS CONTACT TOTAL HOURS TOTAL HRS THIS MODEL TOTAL HRS LAST 3 MONTHS HRS THIS MODEL LAST 3 MONTHS TIME IN FLIGHT MANEUVER OR ALT OF MANEUVER ANGLE OF IMPACT, STOP DIST, EST SPEED 1917.8 426.2 85.7 85.7 UNKNOWN UNKNOWN PREVIOUS ACCIDENT RECORD Informal fact finding board convened by CO of INJURIES TO PILOT NAS BANANA RIVER, FL to investigate loss of MISSING A PBM-5 59225 & crew of 13 officers and men. 30 (1913) Movement of the Rudder, General Order No. A plot to end it. 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