3. Airplane Crash REAL LOCATION of TBM Sim - With Episode on Butch O'Hare's Death

This update video includes a chilling flight simulation of the actual 2018 pilot and crew parachute bail out and ultimate airplane crash at the probable location where the 1945 Grumman TBM Avenger N337VT came to rest. This historic treasure is missing and has been lost in the White Mountains of Arizona ever since. This is a preliminary and rough visual simulation from the Google Earth App.
The episode opens featuring the little known or told heroic story that unfolded when the legendary F4F and F6F fighter pilot LCDR Butch O'Hare was presumably killed in action during the Gilbert Islands offensive campaign by the US Navy. He was never found. The stage is set in the Pacific Theatre of fighting action in WW2, flying off the "Big E" USS Enterprise (CV-6). Butch flew his las two missions teamed with TBF Avenger pilot LCDR John Phillips, who with his crew calling radar positions of the enemy, led the formation of two F4F Hellcats to the night battle in the black overnight skies surrounding the island hopping US Navy task force. The TBF Avenger played a leading and key role in these night battles.
Our Grumman TBM Avenger was featured and marked commemorating duties on the Essex class aircraft carrier CV-17 USS Bunker Hill, which was commissioned in 1943 and fought most of the major engagements against the Japanese Imperial Navy, until near the end of the war in 1945 when it was struck by 2 kamikaze attacks within 30 seconds. These two hits killed many servicemen aboard the carrier and, for the most part, knocked her out of action for the remainder of the war. This story also reflects back briefly on LCDR Frank M. Whitacker from the previous Episode 2A, as he commanded the TBF flying squadron of the USS Bunker Hill.
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