Posted on 08/16/2009 5:53:44 AM PDT by nuconvert
They mention it later in the article and spell it right the second time. Typo, maybe?
Hmmm...wonder what happened on landing that sank a PBY.
The Army had a few twin engine Grummans in service in the 60’s - 70’s, the HU-16 Albatross. BTW, In the late 60’s and early 70’s the Army had more pilots than the Air Force and Navy combined.
As a side note - a good book on PBYs
Those Navy Guys and Their PBY’s: The Aleutian Solution
a page turner if you are a WWII buff.
It supposedly had nine people on board, this means it was a multi-engined craft, quite possibly a DC3(the Air Corps and the Marines used different designations for the DC3, but still that’s what it was!). OTH, 9 people was originally the number of crew members on board the B17, it was later changed to 10. So actually it could be just about any multi-engined Airplane of that day. Too bad they didn’t have brains enough to mention the model in the article. Typical left wing rag.
Ok, correction to my last post, I see some enterprising FReeper has ascertained it was a Catalina, one of the main stays of WWII, they were in short supply and highly valued.
Most likely very noisy, cruising speed was 90 MPH. They even had a squadron of them in use in the South Pacific called the Black Cat Squadron, they operated only at night and were used as ground attack craft.
I thought the same.
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