Box 25

Describes his jokes at Navy parties; contacts with celebrities (i.e. Tyrone Power and Betty Grable); his theory that the earth was concave, etc.

Explains why the search was enacted; what the objectives of the search were; the extent of the search area.

Examples: UFO’s, magnetic aberrations, and time warps.

Reasons for Taylor and Carroll's lack of confidence in the U.S. Navy. Persistence by the two in pursuing the matter for years after it happened.

Speculations as to the route of Flight 19 which would take it beyond the Bahamas and out to sea.

Larry Kusche revisits Corpus Christi in 1978; visits Georgia and Whitney Lowe; visits the Conferate Air Force museum at Harlingen with them; flies a torpedo bomber; tries to mentally recreate what happened to Flight 19.

Chart of events of the search in time sequence, i.e. reported sightings of flares, parachutes, oil slicks, etc. Covers December 9 and 10, 1945.

Includes two photo copies of a flight of U.S. planes, possibly Avengers.

Possibly a preface (draft) for the book. Includes a present day view of Ft. Lauderdale air station.

This collection houses manuscripts (including drafts, final manuscripts, copy edited manuscripts, and master proofs) for Kusche's books, published monographs, publicity, reviews, and research materials including correspondence, notes, reports, documents, taped interviews, and photographs.