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show. You're going to see. On December 5th, 1945, just three months after the close of World War II, a group of Navy and Marine pilots geared up for a routine training flight.

The instructor and supervisor of the day, Lieutenant Carol Taylor, had logged over 2,500 flight

hours in the Grumman TBF Avenger planes, they would be flying that day.

He was beginning to feel as at home in the clouds as he did on the dirt, confident, jovial,

competent, he was the archetypal Navy pilot. The other pilots were fairly new to this particular

aircraft, but not to flying in general. Each of them had at least 300 flight hours logged

in all sorts of different conditions.

But as luck would have it, they wouldn't have to worry about any adverse conditions today.

The weather was favorable in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the base they'd be taking off

from and returning to. And that same report was

given for all the airspace along the eastern coast of Florida for that day, all the

way up to where it meets with Georgia. It was shaping up to be a great day of flying.

The Greenhorns would get some more hours under their belts,

while Lieutenant Taylor would supervise and do what he loved most,

soar across the vast open sky.

But in this part of the world,

conditions can rapidly change and not always for the better.

What everyone thought would be a pleasant day on the job

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