Richard, I was thinking that myself. It seems almost unreal today that 1,902 men died in just four years in Florida alone. And that doesn't count ground training, only aircraft accidents. Dale Richard White <rw@pone.com> wrote: > >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 >> > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FLJACKSO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >