The Lost Squadron: a 75-year mystery in the Bermuda Triangle

New at five. It's one of the enduring mysteries in U. S. Military lore today marks 75 years since the disappearance of flight 19 in the Bermuda Triangle. 14 men died initially, 13 more in the search party also vanished. Mike Gooding spoke today with the daughter of the pilots flight instructor and they never never came back. So it's been an ongoing mystery to this day. It was December 5th 1945 less than four months after V. J. Day marking the formal end of World War Two. Five Navy Avenger torpedo bombers took off from a naval air station in Fort Lauderdale, florida. The planes collectively known as flight 19 were scheduled to fly a three hour exercise between florida, Puerto Rico, Bermuda and back an area that's come to be known as the Bermuda Triangle. As the weather deteriorated, radio contact became intermittent and the planes just disappeared. All 14 airmen on the flight were lost as were all 13 crew members sent out to look for them in a search plane. 27 souls in all vanished without a trace. It always haunted him, you know, especially when someone said, oh, we found the wreckage tears would come to his eyes. Norfolk resident Sue Houts father, Jerry was flight 19 flight instructor. They were brothers. They were brothers. Yes, indeed. Sue says for the rest of his life, Jerry missed those brothers and he took much pride in having served his country. Every time he would see a picture or or come up to one of his planes in the museum, like over in Pungo, tears will come to his eyes. And now, 75 years later, what's one proud daughter's hope for the public as far as this little told tale just to remember that they were, they were heroes also that people don't don't realize, you know, don't forget Mike Gooding 13 News now.