Hello members Some information about the PBY Memorial Association, Based at NAS Whidbey Island, Oak Harbor, Washington, USA. from the website created by Skip...
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David Legg
david_legg@...
Oct 3, 1999 12:22 am
Folks: Re earlier messages from Mark Aldrich & Phillip Treweek, it's a great shame that identifying this particular Cat has not been possible. What I am ...
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heijo kuil
hkuil@...
Oct 3, 1999 12:36 am
Hello members Does anyone have any stories to tell about NAS Whidbey Island, Oak Harbor, Washington, USA. A lot of Navy Guys were trained there. Greetings ...
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Mark Aldrich
mark457@...
Oct 4, 1999 11:20 pm
David, I photographed the hull in question years ago while it was still at Hemet. It still had it's bow turret at the time and there was quite a bit less...
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Gene Guthrie
pbygus@...
Oct 4, 1999 11:20 pm
10-3-99 Kirkland 1045 Here's one from my Memoirs recaptured from my unpublished book which I called "Flight Plans." It's about my instrument flight check...
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Ragnar J Ragnarsson
ragsie@...
Oct 4, 1999 11:20 pm
On 28 August 1942, Lt. G.R. Fiss, in a Cuban-based PBY-5A of VP-92, attacked U-94 in position 1740N 7430W (abt. 130 NM east of Kingston, Jamaica) with 4x650...
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Guy Chamberlin
gchambrln@...
Oct 7, 1999 11:33 pm
When a PBY is landing on the water, how do you keep it from pitching violently forward due to the drag the water causes under the hull? Guy Chamberlin...
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Marc Commandeur
marc.commandeur@...
Oct 7, 1999 11:33 pm
Gene, I bet your story will be a joy to read, it is just that I do not read Mac files (and probably most of the other members on this list neither). Could you...
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Marc Commandeur
pby@...
Oct 7, 1999 11:33 pm
I found this in my inbox (Anchorage Daily 7-2-46). Unfortunately this is all I got. Marc. -- ... Marc Commandeur...
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Marc Commandeur
pby@...
Oct 7, 1999 11:33 pm
Donald Brown is trying to find info for his children about their grandfather. I told him to contact the PBY CIA. But maybe there is somebody on this list.... ...
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Wynnum B Graham
wbg@...
Oct 7, 1999 11:33 pm
Lou and members. I've just come across a PB2Y photo [no good for reproduction]; Caption says "at Noumea, New Caledonia, 12Jun42" Could this be part of the...
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Gene Guthrie
pbygus@...
Oct 7, 1999 11:34 pm
10-7-99 Kirkland 1525 Here are three stories about flying PBY5A's in the Aleutians in 1944 & 1955. I will attach them and aloso copy them below. happy...
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David Legg
david_legg@...
Oct 7, 1999 11:34 pm
For Mark Aldrich Mark - thanks for the message and confirming that the Ephrata PBY is the same aircrfat as the exanmple at Hemet from some years back. If you...
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Skip Meisch
meischa3@...
Oct 7, 1999 11:34 pm
David, I tried to respond to your personal email, But it bounced back as "undeliverable". In response to your question: The forward half of the 'Sad Sack' PBY...
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Lou & Marge
loumar@...
Oct 7, 1999 11:34 pm
Hi, The group hasn't heard too much from me because I don't have anything to contribute at this time. But I am an avid reader of all the mail the group has...
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James C Sawruk
jsawruk@...
Oct 14, 1999 9:50 pm
Wynnum, The PB2Y photo you found is of a VP-13 CORONADO based out of Pearl that is on one of its regular runs between Hawaii and the South Pacific. For the...
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Gene Guthrie
pbygus@...
Oct 14, 1999 9:50 pm
10-7-99 Kirkland 2325 As soon as you feel the tug on the bottom of the hull, you ease back on the yoke to raise the nose and then as the PBY slows down,...
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Gene Guthrie
pbygus@...
Oct 14, 1999 9:50 pm
10-7-99 Kirkland 2330 Hi Marc, I will be happy to copy my short story below. Maybe you knew Leo Nuss. happy landings, Gene "Gus" My instrument check ride...
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Christophe QUEYROI
christophe.queyroi@...
Oct 14, 1999 9:50 pm
Salvation to all, I am called Christophe and I am scale modeler (1:48). Since four years, I work on a PBY5, airplane for which one I have a deep kindness since...
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frank de lorenzo
frankd@...
Oct 14, 1999 9:50 pm
Early in '42 Patrol Squadron 13, flying PB2Y2's, set up a logistic service between Pearl Harbor and Sydney, AUS. As one of the pilots in that squadron my...
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Wayne R. Waters
wwaters@...
Oct 14, 1999 9:50 pm
Guy, It's been about 45 years since I did any flying in PBY's. My experience includes PBY-1's, 2's and 5A's, with most in 5A's. As near as I can recall ...
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Ragnar J Ragnarsson
ragsie@...
Oct 14, 1999 10:01 pm
On 5 OCT 1942, Chief Aviation Pilot Manuel Luke, in an Iceland-based PBY-5A, 73-P-9 / BuNo. 2459, of VP-73 USN, attacked and sank U-582 in position 5852N 2142W...
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FMOL2@...
Oct 14, 1999 10:04 pm
... From: <ICUcherub@...> To: <Br850@...> Sent: Friday, October 08, 1999 10:10 PM Subject: Navy...
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Louis B. "Lou" Dorny
npodorny@...
Oct 14, 1999 10:14 pm
Hello, Wynnum and group from Lou The entire "Bridgeport" project is almost unknown. The fragments that I see are the two planes that flew across the Pacific...
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William T. Larkins
wtl@...
Oct 19, 1999 10:02 pm
Although this is a bit off the subject of PBY's I would like to respond to Lou Dorney's question and I think others may find it of interest. I have had a...
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Marc Commandeur
pby@...
Oct 19, 1999 10:02 pm
Christophe, ... I own a few documents. I can scan some pages that interest you and put them on my web site. Have a look at my site and contact me with the ...
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frank de lorenzo
frankd@...
Oct 19, 1999 10:02 pm
... And on page 85: "I flew her to San Francisco and then to San Diego, where she was over hauled and turned over to the Naval Air Transport Service. On her...
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Wynnum B Graham
wbg@...
Oct 19, 1999 10:02 pm
Lou and group members, Adm. Hart suffered ill health and departed Java for the US about 16Feb42. Could this have been on one of the operation Bridgeport...
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O'Laughlin, Francis M...
olaughfm@...
Oct 19, 1999 10:02 pm
Please add me to your distribution. My stateside e-mail address is FMOL3@... <mailto:FMOL3@...> . I will be leaving Germany in the next two weeks and...
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David Legg
david_legg@...
Oct 19, 1999 10:03 pm
Many thanks for that message which reached me OK this time. My e-mail address is david_legg@... Do not foget the underscore. Thanks for the info. ...
