I'm passing this link along because it might be of help if any of you are pursuing similar lines of research or if you had an ancestor who served at a WWII base in Florida. It is an extremely thorough site dealing with WWII air training bases and crashes in Florida (and chemical weapons locations as well). A total of 991 aircraft and 1,902 human lives were lost in Florida during training exercises between 1941 and 1945. http://www.geocities.com/bwidner1/ Best, Dale

Geeze. It seems almost a miracle that enough survived training to fight the war... But, although I'm sure Florida was a favored training area because of the climate, this just helps to highlight what an immense undertaking W.W.II was. RW DNDothan@cs.com wrote: >I'm passing this link along because it might be of help if any of you are pursuing similar lines of research or if you had an ancestor who served at a WWII base in Florida. It is an extremely thorough site dealing with WWII air training bases and crashes in Florida (and chemical weapons locations as well). > >A total of 991 aircraft and 1,902 human lives were lost in Florida during training exercises between 1941 and 1945. > >http://www.geocities.com/bwidner1/ > >Best, >Dale >