Developed from 1928, the Catalina (originally PBY) was a long-range flying boat known for its unique design features like retractable wingtip floats and a high-mounted wing, capable of 4,000-mile ...
Before and after Dec. 7, 1941, the frequent appearance of big PBY Catalina flying boats skimming the wavetops in Pearl Harbor and Kaneohe Bay would have been an eye-catching sight. A PBY-5A Catalina ...
For the past 20 years, divers have unsuccessfully tried to explore and photograph a PBY-5 Catalina seaplane shot down during Japan’s opening salvo of the Pearl Harbor attack. Now, some 74 years after ...
A tear in the porthole and mid-fuselage break speak to the impact of the attack. UH Marine Option Program Fish swim around the cockpit of the Catalina PBY-5. UH Marine Option Program A diver inspects ...
Gordon was awarded the Medal of Honor for "extraordinary heroism" while serving as commander of a Catalina Patrol Plane that rescued 15 United States Army Fifth Air Force service members shot down in ...
Click to open image viewer. Radar, twin .50 caliber guns in a power-driven bow turret, tall tail with a taller vertical fin first seen on the PBN-1; outrigger floats from each wingtip, hinged to fold ...
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