Ah yes, Flight 19. Truly the epitome of Murphy's Law - Anything that could go wrong, did go wrong.
I have read all three major books on the subject. The main issue I have with Myhre's is that, to me, he seems to take the "dots" of evidence and then connect them backwards to a common, predetermined starting point. That and the Avenger that he found had the gear down and locked. Not what you'd do for a water landing. Of course, you could argue that the flap and gear levels are adjacent to each other in the Avenger's cockpit and, at night, in a stressful situation, the pilot could have accidentally dropped both unintentionally. But there is the mitigating fact that hundreds of Avengers were lost of the east coast of Florida - it was a major training area during and after WW II, and carrier landings and takeoffs by their very nature are very dangerous from the get-go and allow no margin for error. Finding one, even where he thought one might be, let alone the other group that found five close together, is not particularly meaningful to me at all.
Quasar also seems to want to connect the dots backward, to a predetermined result. Which is also a place that is impossible to check (Okefenokee Swamp). He also seems, to me, to base many of his deductions and assertions on what people might have done or should have done.
Kusche seems to me to be the most dispassionate of the three - Flight 19 was an intriguing mystery, nothing more or less. He demolishes the idea that Taylor was drunk by talking to the lead pilot of the training flight that left right before Taylor's, a man who was within touching distance of Taylor and would certainly have noticed if he was inebriated. He saw nothing of the kind.
Whatever their fate, they died in the service of their country. RIP.
LTM, who did a model of it,
Monty Fowler, TIGHAR No. 2189 ECSP