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US Navy PBY Catalina Units of the Pacific War
Description
Deadly in its primary role as a submarine hunter, the PBY Catalina was the scourge of the Imperial Japanese Navy's submarine force.
Its amphibious traits also made the aircraft well suited to air-sea rescue, and thousands of Allied airmen were saved from a watery grave by PBY crews. Using personal interviews, war diaries and combat reports combined with original Japanese records and books, Louis B Dorny provides a view on the role of the Catalina from both side of the war.
Illustrated with over 80 photographs and colour profiles detailing aircraft markings, this is the definitive history of an insight into the PBY's use by the US Navy and Allied forces in the Pacific during World War 2.
Table of Contents
War comes to Hawaii
The Philippines and South-west Pacific
The Aleutians
Midway
Guadalcanal
Up the Solomons Chain
Across the Pacific
On to the End
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Product details
| Published | 20 Jan 2013 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 96 |
| ISBN | 9781472800916 |
| Imprint | Osprey Publishing |
| Series | Combat Aircraft |
| Short code | COM 62 |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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