Norman & Group The PBY-5A in Norman's picture is Royal Ddanish Air Force serial number L-853. This aircraft was built by Canadian Vickers at Cartierville as a...
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Nicolai Musante
musante@...
Oct 1, 2000 8:17 am
Hi... Just an addition, this PBY was named "Pluto" and the wreck was recovered 6th January 1970. I have no ides what happened to it afterwards. Rgds Nicolai...
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Norman Taylor
normtaylorc47@...
Oct 1, 2000 11:36 pm
Dave; Appreciate the info/history on L-853, will add it to my file on the aircraft. Is there a publication available on all the PBY's/OA-l0s that I can get to...
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carl dagnese
cdagnese@...
Oct 2, 2000 2:43 am
Greetings: The 2nd ERS, 13th USAAF, is holding a reunion next weekend in Portland, Oregon. If any of the 2nd ERS vets are hiding out there and would like info...
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Heijo Hindrik Kuil
hkuil@...
Oct 2, 2000 5:26 am
Hello Carl Dagnese and members. Carl, at the 2nd ERS, 13th USAAF reunion, can you please tell the vets about this e-mail group. Print out some info with the...
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Wynnum B Graham
wbg@...
Oct 2, 2000 6:54 am
Group - from Wynnum - Relative to the old e-mails below - I recently came across this in Kemp Tolley's book, Cruise of the Lanikai- [generously loaned to me by...
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Erik Broegger
ebroeg@...
Oct 2, 2000 7:03 am
Hej Norm, A few more infos about Danish Airforce L-853: As mentioned by Nicolai and David L-853 crashed during a water landing at Gilleleje north of Zeeland...
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Harry Follas
chinook@...
Oct 2, 2000 7:46 am
If any of the members are interested..... I produce cartoons and caricatures in my spare time. Here is one of our manager (Catalina Group, NZ) Chis Snelson....
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Harry Follas
chinook@...
Oct 2, 2000 8:13 am
Hi Elmar, Norm If you want a copy of the photo, I suggest you contact the photographer, His name is : John King (writer & photographer) Auster Productions 29...
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Harry Follas
chinook@...
Oct 2, 2000 8:15 am
Sorry he also has an email address: king.jdm@... Hi Elmar, Norm If you want a copy of the photo, I suggest you contact the photographer, His name is : ...
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Norman Taylor
normtaylorc47@...
Oct 2, 2000 4:19 pm
Hi Erik: Thank you for sharing those photos, sad to see it like that. Wish I could get copies for my photo file on the a/c. The photographer that took the...
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David Legg
David_Legg@...
Oct 2, 2000 6:43 pm
For Norman Taylor..... Norman - can you contact me on my personal e-mail address and I'll see what I can do to help. I am on david_legg@... Hope to...
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David Legg
David_Legg@...
Oct 2, 2000 6:43 pm
Erik Re Norman's photo of L-853 and your question on sources, it has been published a number of times in various publications but never with a credit line. I...
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RLEDF@...
Oct 2, 2000 10:13 pm
To whom it may concern: Mr. Kennedy Singh of Jamaica referred me recently to the book "The U-boat War in the Caribbean", by Gayland...
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Allan LeBaron
allan_lebaron@...
Oct 2, 2000 10:52 pm
Re: Asdic Just a guess. I think this dates initially from WWI - a British term - the very early attempts to locate U-boats not by pinging on them - at least...
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Ragnar J Ragnarsson
ragsie@...
Oct 2, 2000 11:39 pm
Bob, ASDIC is an acronym standing for Antisubmarine Detection Investigation Committee that initiated the British detection system in 1917. The British had...
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SEAN MILLIGAN
jetsarekids@...
Oct 2, 2000 11:50 pm
Rre ASDIC on your question 3: Sonobuoys, maybe. Never ASDIC. Best Sean Paul Milligan Air Station Historian Quonset Air Museum ... From: RLEDF@......
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Ragnar J Ragnarsson
ragsie@...
Oct 3, 2000 12:15 am
Re. your question no. 4, I know of one member of our group that attacked an U-boat in the face of AA fire. No, the plane wasn't shot down. Yes, they did sink...
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Ragnar J Ragnarsson
ragsie@...
Oct 3, 2000 12:18 am
Yes, sonobuoys, sure. VP-63 had them as early as late 42 / early 43. I believe that later in the war most antisubmarine squadrons had them. Ragnar ... From:...
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TWMcCarthy@...
Oct 3, 2000 1:05 am
The first post (on which I have added some comments) was a great one. Thanks Captain. In a message dated 9/30/00 10:19:23 AM Pacific Daylight Time,...
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RLEDF@...
Oct 3, 2000 2:31 am
To Ragnar et al: Thanks for the dope about ASDIC. As for sonobuoys, I recall them being discussed sometime during the fourteen...
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Harry Follas
chinook@...
Oct 3, 2000 5:56 am
A couple of recent photos I found whilst doing a little "Spring-cleaning". Harry chinook@......
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Nicolai Musante
musante@...
Oct 3, 2000 6:17 am
Hi Group. As there recently has been a bit of activity regarding Danish PBY's I thought I would give this a go: I've been puzzling with L-867 (82-867, USN...
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Elmar Gailits
elmar.gailits@...
Oct 3, 2000 11:22 am
I have been browsing around the sites below and have purchased an excellent CD ROM from the gpo "Dictionary of American Naval Aviation Squadrons Volume 2 - VP,...
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Elmar Gailits
elmar.gailits@...
Oct 3, 2000 11:41 am
Saved as jpeg (.jpg) pictures in pbypictures and is only small, not 9M any more! Regards Elmar...
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Ragnar J Ragnarsson
ragsie@...
Oct 3, 2000 12:25 pm
Nicolai, According to an article written by Ted Burnett for SAFO vol.23 no. 2 (90) July 1999 L-867 forced-landed due to engine failure on a strip of water WSW...
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Ragnar J Ragnarsson
ragsie@...
Oct 3, 2000 12:25 pm
The name of this gear was METOX, so named after one of its two French manufacturers, METOX and GRANDIN. The device was a simple receiver that was able to...
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Allan LeBaron
allan_lebaron@...
Oct 3, 2000 12:58 pm
Ragnar: Great stuff on the Metox - I'd heard of it but didn't understand how it worked. Do you have any dope on the development of Magnetic Anomaly Detection...
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Ragnar J Ragnarsson
ragsie@...
Oct 3, 2000 1:51 pm
Allan, I have some stuff on MAD and I'll put something together when I get a little more time. At the moment I'm trying to reduce my e-mail backlog after all...
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SEAN MILLIGAN
jetsarekids@...
Oct 3, 2000 2:20 pm
Hi -- How long did it take you to get your VP CD ROM from the publisher. I am on the US East Coast and it has been more than two months now. Im sure...
