It began as nothing more than a routine training flight. At 2:10 p.m. on Dec. 5, 1945, five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers took off from a Naval Air Station in ...

Among its most haunting tales is the disappearance of Flight 19, a squadron of five Navy bombers that vanished into thin air on December 5, 1945. Decades later, the enigma persists.