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The war had been over for months, and the flight was merely on a routine training run off the east coast of Florida. The total disappearance of the \"Lost Squadron,\" \"Lost Patrol\" or, as it is most frequently called, Flight 19, was a bizarre case if for nothing more than the very number of aircraft that vanished. Paradoxically, however, little is known of the actual incident and the 14 aviators who vanished. Rather than being subjected to serious journalism as in the case of Amelia Earhart or Glenn Miller's disappearance or the destruction of the Hindenberg, Flight 19 became buried in the popular enigma of the \"Bermuda Triangle.\" Any recounting of it was but a vignette designed to link it with the many others that had vanished. Author Gian J. Quasar, the man considered the leading expert in the world on the Bermuda Triangle, however, pulls the flight from the Triangle's clutches to reveal it as a military blunder, a tragedy and an irony. Like an absorbing detective read, They Flew into Oblivion leads the reader through the case and its aftermath and then follows the author on his solution of its mystery and his search for its final resting place. The result is to lay bare the incident once and for all. The trail stops at a federal refuge that will allow no examination of its contents for fear it might disturb the alligators . . . and for fear Flight 19 is indeed inside.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51366641336543,"sku":"9780988850507","price":21.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/G9IzxdFNBP9780988850507.webp?v=1789095211"},{"product_id":"a-passage-to-oblivion-paperback","title":"A Passage to Oblivion - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eClue after clue laid down a disturbing trail for investigators that culminated not in the finding of the body of the crime but in the most remarkable and frustrating disappearance in nautical history- the vanishing of a 20,000 ton ship and 309 crew. The only logical answer seemed hard to believe- betrayal. The difference between the fated voyage of HMS Bounty and U.S.S. Cyclops may be that the Cyclops was a complete success. The US Navy, though they searched for years, never found Cyclops' Pitcairn. But is it true that no trace was ever found of the great ship? Gian Quasar, considered the foremost investigator of popular mysteries, dug into the voluminous records to rediscover what had so disturbed the Navy in 1918. Like with story of Flight 19, Quasar pulls the Cyclops from the clutches of Bermuda Triangle legend to reveal that the Navy was justified to suspect mutiny and treason. Now 95 years later, for the first time, the story of what could be America's greatest sea betrayal is told, the events leading up to and after the last voyage of the Cyclops. The US Navy still boasts it has never suffered a mutiny, and they may still do so. But after reading A Passage to Oblivion, we may well ask if this nation has not suffered something far more intriguing and tragic than that which befell the king's Bounty.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51366641565919,"sku":"9780988850569","price":21.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/yCZsvOQwqy9780988850569.webp?v=1789095212"},{"product_id":"horrorscope-the-zodiac-killer-exposed-paperback","title":"HorrorScope: The Zodiac Killer Exposed - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was one of the most unnerving times in American history. A counterculture was spreading through society like a contagion. Its most esoteric and flamboyant center was San Francisco. From within this psychedelic culture of peace, drugs and daisies, there arose the most boastful killer in history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e His murders would be those of some demented thug stalking lovers' lanes were it not for his publicity campaign. He not only murdered. He marketed his murders. And his claims make no sense when compared to his murders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e He called himself the Zodiac and claimed occult motives, thus implying he arose from the disturbing hippie movement. Then he threatened to plant bombs and snipe school busses, foreshadowing the methods of the militant New Left. He bragged he was too clever to ever be identified or captured. Then he disappeared. 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