March 2011 Luncheon

03/28/2011

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NASFLHA March 2011 Luncheon
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David Flynn, USN WWII USS Houston survivor, his lovely wife Donna, a dance instructor and Mr. Schwarz, attended the Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale Historical Association March 10th, 2011 Luncheon, at the Fort Lauderdale Yacht Club.


John Schwarz is the Executive Director of the Blue Bonnet Newsletter of the USS Houston CA-30 Survivor's Association. He is the son of USN survivor Otto Schwarz.
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The speaker at the NASFLHA Luncheon was RADMR Jim Black MC USN (Ret). He talked about his extensive experience as a Physician Medical Officer, and offered his observations about the future of the US Navy.
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RADMR Jim Black receiving One Man's Vision book, from Allan McElhiney, President and founder of the Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale Historical Association & Museum.
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WWII Avenger Wreckage

03/05/2011

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As we're slowly going through our warehouse at the Airport where we have in storage many boxes and containers of memorabilia, we came about a container with parts of a WWII Avenger's wreckage that was discovered in the Everglades grassland. In 1989, Allan McElhiney and Frank Hill were brought deep into the Everglades to investigate a TBM Avenger crash site which was revealed from the grass after a fire. They thought that perhaps it was part of the Flight 19 squadron. It was determined it was not, as the serial numbers on a visible plate didn't match. However, it was a plane from the Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale (NASFL). The parts from this wreckage will be on exhibit at the NASFL Museum.

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