The Hurricane Hunters
and Lost in the Bermuda Triangle
by Tom Barnes
Reviewed by Lenora Smalley

Separated from his navy squadron which was sent to the Pacific, the author found himself  in Florida at the Jacksonville Municipal Airport with its long runways able to handle a heavy bomber outfit. With a great deal of skill he relates his experiences during 1945 as World War II was winding down. True- to- life anecdotes and episodes move the story along.

Sent to Masters Field in Miami, after Washington ordered the military to develop a hurricane warning system, he was assigned to Squadron 114, the early Hurricane Hunters. They  tracked storms from Barbados in the eastern Carribean to Honduras and Belize in the west. At that time hurricanes had Roman Numeral numbers instead of names. Hurricane  #IX, a category 4, hit Miami and Masters Field.  He writes from experience with frightening realism about  the danger and destruction of hurricanes, emphasizing the importance of a warning system.

 Flying many times over the Bermuda Triangle, the same area as the five planes which made up Flight 19 mysteriously lost while on a training mission, the author adds his speculation as to what may have happened to them. Interesting and  logical.

 I found this well written, well researched  book to be riveting and compelling. Worth the read.