In 1945, Five bombers vanished and launched the Bermuda Triangle legend
by Ellsworth Toohey from Boing Boing on (#7739A)
On December 5, 1945, five Navy torpedo bombers took off from Fort Lauderdale on a routine navigation exercise and never came back - the disappearance that launched the legend of the Bermuda Triangle. Partway through, the flight leader, Lt. Charles Taylor, radioed that both his compasses had failed: "I am sure I'm in the Keys but I don't know how far down and I don't know how to get to Fort Lauderdale." - Read the rest
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