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The Santa Barbara B-24 Disasters: A Chain of Tragedies Across Air, Land & Sea
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The Santa Barbara B-24 Disasters: A Chain of Tragedies Across Air, Land & Sea
About this book
Three separate and related tragedies occurred during and after a training run of a B-24 Liberator on July 4, 1943, over the Pacific off Santa Barbara County: The heavy bomber crashed near Santa Barbara and two of the crew were never found, another B-24 search-and-rescue crew looking for survivors off the coast never returned at all and was found later to have cashed on San Miguel Island, killing all 12 aboard, and the Air Force investigators of that accident, years later, in 1954, coming to the island in a Coast Guard cutter, hit a yacht, killing two more people. Author Robert A. Burtness takes you inside these somber stories with recorded first-hand accounts and vintage images.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- The B-24 Liberator and Its Variants
- A Bomber Crash Behind the Coastal Mountain Range
- Searching for the Official Records
- Seeking Surviving Crew Members
- Finding the Needle in the Haystack
- The Ten-Hour Flight that Ended with an Unscheduled Stop
- Bailout!
- The Search for the Missing Crew Members of the Hat in the Ring
- The Board of Inquiry
- The War Continues: Onward to China
- Arrival at Their New Home and a Second Bailout
- The Long Journey to Freedom
- Unraveling the San Miguel Island Mystery Eleven Years Later
- The Crew Members and What Became of the Survivors After the War
- The Wreck Sites Today
- Appendix I: In Memoriam
- Appendix II: Lieutenant Thornburg and the Crew of Another Liberator
- Bibliography
- About the Author