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| Photos: PBY-2 |
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| Photos: PBY-2 |
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| 9-P-1 (BuNo 0147?)
10-P-4 9-P-2 9-P-4 10-P-5(?) 9-P-? 9-P-? 10-P-? 9-P-? 1939-Jan-10 The photo's caption is incorrect. VP-9 has PBY-1s (notched elevators) and VP-10 has PBY-2s. (I can't see the top-side carburetor air-intakes of a PBY-3 on any of these planes.) Lt.Cmdr Spencer H. Warner is leading this flight of 18 planes that departed San Diego 1938-Jan-18 and arrived Pearl Harbor Jan-19. The flight did break a record; perhaps in number of planes? See log book of Joel C. Stovall. BTW, that's not a ship near the horizon, but a large flaw in the photo. Caption:
Flt led by Capt Marc Mitscher, ComPatWing ONE 48 A/C - largest grp of A/C to fly 3,000 mi. (Photo from the R.L.Lawson collection, courtesy of the Nat'l Museum of Naval Aviation) |