John Dill (an air traffic controller at the Cleveland Center) excoriated the FAA's Administrator and traffic control methodology in a letter to the editor in...
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SEAN MILLIGAN
jetsarekids@...
Mar 1, 2000 5:39 pm
Much of my coverage of Navy and Marine Utility Squadrons in my book SERVE THE FLEET! deals with VJs and VMJs in the Pacific. Semper Fi Sean, over SEAN PAUL...
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David Legg
david_legg@...
Mar 1, 2000 7:24 pm
Bearing in mind that the post war Japanese forces operated two PBY-6As there could even by Japanese members on this site although not for long at this rate. ...
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Carl D'Agnese
cdagnese@...
Mar 1, 2000 9:06 pm
The War with Japan ended in September, 1945. We, the Allies, won the war and paid a terrible price in blood, suffering and lost friends and crewmates. Some...
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Francis H Clifton
FHCPBYFOR@...
Mar 2, 2000 12:34 am
To the Group; The report below is the story of the sinking PBY on Rennell Island as told by the PPC to a son of the co-pilot. ... The Rennell Island experience...
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Richard M. Douglass
rmdover2u@...
Mar 2, 2000 6:23 am
Funny thing about all that Army Air Corps talent in Europe...their two top aces, Bong and McGuire, got all their victories in the South Pacific. And in P-38s,...
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robert fleming
RLEDF@...
Mar 2, 2000 3:45 pm
To Francis and group: That Rennell story surely is fascinating. I was at first a little furious at skipper Garcia when he told the...
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Richard M. Douglass
rmdover2u@...
Mar 2, 2000 4:28 pm
Hello Francis, RE: PBY 08253. Do you know the side number of this aircraft, and what it looked like? Was it a black cat painted PBY ot regular Pacific Navy...
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Richard Neiswonger
wa6agl@...
Mar 2, 2000 5:50 pm
dick neiswonger said: In 1947 there were 2 PBY squadrons located at Breezy Point NAS Norfolk ,Va.. Squadron VP 33 and VP 34.. Each squadron had 9 Planes... the...
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Silvano Jung
sjung@...
Mar 3, 2000 2:36 am
Hello all I have a question on how Catalinas are moored. Why isn't the mooring post always used? There's a line drawing of the anchoring arrangement in...
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Bill Kline
bkline@...
Mar 3, 2000 3:04 am
Question to Group How come so little information about the war in the Aleutians? How many youngsters of today know of the occupation of American soil by the...
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Bill Kline
bkline@...
Mar 3, 2000 3:04 am
Open Letter to Group How come so little information is mentioned about the war in the Aleutians? Is it because no one in the group was there? It has been...
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BOBSAERO@...
Mar 3, 2000 7:41 am
I have always thought of the poor souls who had to attach beaching gear in the Aleutians.It must have made their day to see the first amphibious 5-A taxi up......
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Wynnum B Graham
wbg@...
Mar 3, 2000 10:34 am
Silvano, The mooring post, or bollard, or snubber post as it is variously referred to, is only a tool, or facility, used in the mooring process. When moored,...
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Allan LeBaron
allan_lebaron@...
Mar 3, 2000 1:08 pm
Half the remaining personnel of PatWing TEN returned to the U.S. aboard USS MT VERNON, sailing from Freemantle about 6 March 1942. Many of these personnel,...
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Hammer
hammerin@...
Mar 3, 2000 2:20 pm
Hi, I am in the middle of Mel Crocker's "Black Cats and Dumbos" and have a new found respect for the battle in the Aleutians. He describes the harrowing ...
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frank de lorenzo
frankd@...
Mar 3, 2000 3:40 pm
Bill: Your points are well taken. I read a book many years ago called "No Shouting, No Tumult!" about PBY Ops in the Aleutians. Don't recall the author or...
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Walter L. Bourgeois
w5vb@...
Mar 3, 2000 5:19 pm
To Bill Kline: I read a pretty interesting book that I picked up in the Air Terminal at Dutch Harbor, AK, circa about 1992 or '93.. The title was: The ...
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Allan LeBaron
allan_lebaron@...
Mar 3, 2000 5:54 pm
Who published the dope on PBY casualties recently? I have some supplemental information which can be sent as three attachments for December 1941 which might...
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SEAN MILLIGAN
jetsarekids@...
Mar 3, 2000 6:03 pm
To Frank De Lorenzo, Bill, et al PBY Group: The book is NO TUMULT, NO SHOUTING by Lois and Don Thorburn c. 1945 pub. Henry Holt and Co.. New York 150 pages AND...
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Allan LeBaron
allan_lebaron@...
Mar 3, 2000 6:30 pm
Numerous copies of this book available from Bookfinder.com - varied price range depending upon condition. allan_lebaron@... ...
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Henry Aries
haries@...
Mar 3, 2000 8:47 pm
Hi Walt and Group, Thousand Mile War byGarfield was good book.Gave away last copy and Aleutian Warriors by Chloe was great with good pictures. The Navy Guys...
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robert fleming
RLEDF@...
Mar 3, 2000 9:21 pm
To Tom McCarthy and group: I had not been assigned to any specific squadron at the time the A-bomd was dropped. I, together with two of my...
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Allan LeBaron
allan_lebaron@...
Mar 3, 2000 9:37 pm
Chuck Baggarley, the Secretary of the VP-22 Association, is just back from Arizona and can be reached at Chuckb@.... allan_lebaron@... ...
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robert fleming
RLEDF@...
Mar 3, 2000 10:37 pm
To Walter and group. You're right on as to the value to the U,S. of the wasted Japanese carrier as part of the Aleutian feint...
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Richard Neiswonger
wa6agl@...
Mar 3, 2000 11:03 pm
Richard wrote.. To Walter.. I thought that task force sent to the Aleutians by Japan was to fool U.S. into thinking they were going to invade the American ...
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Allan LeBaron
allan_lebaron@...
Mar 3, 2000 11:07 pm
Brian Garfield was the author of The Thousand Mile War. It is available from Bookfinder.com. [I sound like a shill for this site, but I've ordered numerous...
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Walter L. Bourgeois
w5vb@...
Mar 3, 2000 11:22 pm
To Richard from Walter: Right on target Richard; that was exactly what the Japs had in mind as was pointed out in the book ... but it was indeed a costly...
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TWMcCarthy@...
Mar 4, 2000 2:37 am
In a message dated 03/03/2000 4:36:08 PM Pacific Standard Time, ... Dear Bob - I spent four months at Hutch (February through April) of 1945 but I only have...
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James C Sawruk
jsawruk@...
Mar 4, 2000 2:40 am
Records for the Aleutians Camapign are not as good as some of the other areas despite the intensity during certain periods. This may account for some of the...
