Hello members. Have a look at the following web-site: http://www.pbyflighttraining.com/ Some may have seen it already. Can anybody tell us more about training...
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Alan Robertson
oceanflyer@...
Nov 3, 2000 6:00 am
I'm a new member who trained at Pensacola in September 1941. Served on 202 & 240 Squadrons at Gibraltar, Madras and Castle Archdale, Northern Ireland, from...
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Allan LeBaron
allan_lebaron@...
Nov 3, 2000 6:20 pm
Heijo: This is third-hand but there may be someone who can either confirm it or blow it out of the water. During 1941, the N.E.I. were receiving PBY-5s on...
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Heijo Hindrik Kuil
hkuil@...
Nov 3, 2000 11:23 pm
Welcome Alan Robertson and other new members. Alan, Thank you for your introduction; see message below. I would like to invite the other new members to...
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royang@...
Nov 4, 2000 1:55 am
Alan, glad to have you onboard. Very nice place to meet people of yesteryears. No, dont think we have crossed. My main duty was ferrying the pby seaplanes...
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Wynnum B Graham
wbg@...
Nov 4, 2000 6:16 am
Allan, All the Dutch Catalinas were outright purchases, cash and carry. As for vacant cockpits, what is third-hand? Is it a friend of a friend who knew an old...
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Louis B. "Lou" Dorny
npodorny@...
Nov 4, 2000 10:12 am
Hello, Allan from Lou & welcome Gibraltar, No. 202 Squadron, 1941-1942... A question for you. No. 202 sent four Catalinas and crews to the Far East in...
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Louis B. "Lou" Dorny
npodorny@...
Nov 4, 2000 11:17 am
Wynuum and Alan on the Dutch PBYs From my Patrol Wing TEN stuff and work in the Dutch records of the Marinluchtvaartdienst (MLD), details emerge that confirm,...
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Allan LeBaron
allan_lebaron@...
Nov 4, 2000 1:08 pm
Lou: I wouldn't dare bring this up on the net - Wynnum already thinks that the Murricans weren't nearly as heroic as they thought themselves and he'd go ...
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David Legg
David_Legg@...
Nov 4, 2000 1:17 pm
Alan - good to get your message and hear about your RAF experiences. If you are not already a member of The Catalina Society you may find membership useful as...
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Carl D'Agnese
cdagnese@...
Nov 4, 2000 4:03 pm
Wynnum: Evidently, it was common practice to TDY flight crew to other country's air forces. I have mission reports from the 2nd ERS noteing an Aussie pilot as...
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Wynnum B Graham
wbg@...
Nov 5, 2000 2:31 am
Carl, I expect that might be Flight Lt W R Mills, a very experienced Catalina pilot. RAAF 113 Air Sea Rescue Flight was formed at Cairns, Australia on 10Jan45,...
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Ragnar J Ragnarsson
ragsie@...
Nov 5, 2000 2:54 am
Wynnum, BuNos. 48401 and 48407 were both assigned to ACORN 30 from March 1945 until stricken of the Navy's list in November 1945. Prir to that both were...
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Louis B. "Lou" Dorny
npodorny@...
Nov 5, 2000 3:52 am
Allan from Lou... Right on! War aims among the Allies were not exactly congruent and in some matters differed widely. Of course, by 1943 -- when the Aleutians...
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Louis B. "Lou" Dorny
npodorny@...
Nov 5, 2000 4:04 am
Wynnum from Lou... You continue, friend, to demonstrate the most excyclopedic grasp of Catalina operational history and sundry related matters. I am...
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John Dill
johndill@...
Nov 5, 2000 4:42 am
I've been lurking here for a while enjoying the posts from all of you. I have no experience with seaplanes, other than one mission in a Navy P5M Marlin out of...
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Louis B. "Lou" Dorny
npodorny@...
Nov 5, 2000 5:13 am
Hello and Welcome, John, from Lou in Seattle If Alan LeBaron says you're an OK guy, then you're OK here too! Post your ariticle on navigation, please. If...
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Carl D'Agnese
cdagnese@...
Nov 5, 2000 5:25 am
Wynnum: You are, of course, correct about F/O Mills. One mission report I have shows him flying a PBY-5A, A24, #109, on 30 Mar 45, while attached to the 2nd...
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John Dill
johndill@...
Nov 5, 2000 5:35 am
This letter was in response to a discussion we were having on another mail list about GPS and what a marvel it is. Most of the folks in that group are not...
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Wynnum B Graham
wbg@...
Nov 5, 2000 7:15 am
Lou, Thanks for the kudos - not sure I deserve much for doing what I like doing! And I don't do any of it with an eye to profit - if somebody bought me a new ...
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Mark Aldrich
mark457@...
Nov 5, 2000 5:21 pm
Wynuum, Three MLD planes were at Pearl on 12/7/41: Y-68 (c/n 372) was the 28-5MN lost; Y-70 was not damaged and continued it's delivery flight via Wake Island,...
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Morten Wistrøm
mowistroem@...
Nov 5, 2000 7:55 pm
Hello Is there somebody ho can help us ?, we neede two things for for a PBY6a at the Museum in Helsingore, Denmark, Take alook at www.tekniskmuseum.dk/...
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Carl D'Agnese
cdagnese@...
Nov 5, 2000 8:05 pm
Greetings: Just a short review of Microsoft's Combat Flight Simulator 2, the Pacific Theatre. For those of you (like me) that no longer fly, this program is a...
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Carlos Blazquez
chbblaz@...
Nov 5, 2000 10:04 pm
Hi Lou: I think that it is a very good Idea. There are younger people interested in what happened in WWII, and the antics of the flying and ground crews. I...
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Richard Neiswonger
wa6agl@...
Nov 6, 2000 12:57 am
To Lou Dorney From Dick Neiswonger.. I can't remember if I ask you this or not.. getting old I guess. but you seem to have pretty good command of the units and...
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David Legg
David_Legg@...
Nov 6, 2000 6:44 pm
Members.... A couple of weeks ago, there was some correspondence between a few contributors regarding the solitary Catalina interned by the Spanish and later...
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Wynnum B Graham
wbg@...
Nov 7, 2000 7:40 am
Carl D'Agnese, and group members, I'm looking for information on USAAF 20th Troop Carrier Squadron --- an OA-10 and OA-10A operator. Between 13Nov43 and...
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Alan Robertson
oceanflyer@...
Nov 8, 2000 12:53 am
Roy: Thanks for the quick reply and your kind words of welcome. On completion of flight training at Pensacola in May 1941, I was assigned to the RAF Ferry...
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Marlin Crider
Desoto1950@...
Nov 8, 2000 1:42 am
Live in Jax. Fl. PBY5A at NAS Jax. Flew in PBY's from 1941 -46. Stationed in Argentia Nfld. with VP-72 moved to Hawaii Dec 1941 flew at Midway Coral Sea and...
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royang@...
Nov 8, 2000 4:54 am
Hi Marlin and glad to see youii. I had a few friends in vp72. Believe one was Mock and sometimes called holy joe mock. Possibly others. I was in oild VP55...
