The Santa Barbara B-24 Disasters

A Chain of Tragedies Across Air, Land & Sea

Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States
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Author: Robert A. Burtness ISBN: 9781614235484
Publisher: The History Press Publication: June 23, 2012
Imprint: The History Press Language: English
Author: Robert A. Burtness
ISBN: 9781614235484
Publisher: The History Press
Publication: June 23, 2012
Imprint: The History Press
Language: English
In one of the most inexplicable and practically unknown homefront tragedies of World War II, three separate but eerily linked events left sixteen people dead along the California coast. On July 4, 1943, a B-24 Liberator on maneuvers over the Pacific ran low on fuel. The U.S. Army Air Corps crew parachuted out, two into the ocean, and the unmanned heavy bomber crashed near Santa Barbara. A second B-24, assigned to the search-and-rescue mission over the ocean, literally vanished. That plane’s remains and those of its twelve airmen were found eight months later on San Miguel Island. In 1954, the Coast Guard cutter carrying Air Force investigators to wrap up details of the San Miguel disaster rammed a yacht, killing two others. Author Robert A. Burtness re-creates this tragic trilogy of errors in this painstakingly researched volume.
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In one of the most inexplicable and practically unknown homefront tragedies of World War II, three separate but eerily linked events left sixteen people dead along the California coast. On July 4, 1943, a B-24 Liberator on maneuvers over the Pacific ran low on fuel. The U.S. Army Air Corps crew parachuted out, two into the ocean, and the unmanned heavy bomber crashed near Santa Barbara. A second B-24, assigned to the search-and-rescue mission over the ocean, literally vanished. That plane’s remains and those of its twelve airmen were found eight months later on San Miguel Island. In 1954, the Coast Guard cutter carrying Air Force investigators to wrap up details of the San Miguel disaster rammed a yacht, killing two others. Author Robert A. Burtness re-creates this tragic trilogy of errors in this painstakingly researched volume.

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