Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Catalina Affair is the name given to a Cold War incident in which a Swedish Air Force search and rescue/maritime patrol Catalina (Swedish designation "TP 47") was shot down by Soviet MiG 15 fighters over the Baltic Sea in June 1952 while investigating the disappearance of a Swedish Douglas DC-3 (later found to have been shot down by Soviet ...
Swedish Air Force Consolidated PBY Catalina on display at the Swedish Air Force museum in Linkoping, Sweden. Three Canso amphibians, built by Canadian-Vickers, were bought by the Swedish Air Force in 1947. The Swedish designation was Tp 47.
Consolidated OA-10 Catalina - Army PBY flying boat/patrol bomber; Consolidated Vultee XP-81 - Fighter; Vultee XA-41 - Prototype ground attack aircraft; Culver PQ-8/A-8 - Radio-controlled target aircraft; Culver PQ-14 Cadet - Radio-controlled target aircraft; Curtiss A-12 Shrike - Attack bomber; Curtiss XA-14/Curtiss A-18 Shrike - Attack bomber
PBY Catalina Survivors identifies Catalinas on display, and includes aircraft designations, status, serial numbers, locations and additional information. The Consolidated PBY Catalina was a twin-engined American flying boat of the 1930s and 1940s, designed by Consolidated Aircraft Co.
Dutch Dornier Do 24s taking off from Roebuck Bay 1941 At Broome airstrip a US B-24 is destroyed in the March 3, 1942 raid Crews with the Dutch Naval Aviation Service's Dornier Do 24 at Darwin Harbour, the Dornier Do 24 would be later attacked at Broome Typical US Navy PBY Catalina and crew during World War II Corinna and Centaurus sister ship, Coriolanus Short Empire, S.23 flyingboat
Congressionally-imposed limits on the size of the Army officer corps, an extremely low turnover (resignations, retirements, and dismissals), and a "hump" of over-age officers in the middle grades caused by aborted provisions in the National Defense Act of 1920 caused a significant logjam in promotions during the interwar period.
5 September 1939: VP-13 flew a trans-Pacific from San Diego to NAS Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, it new permanent home base. At that time, the squadron operated with a complement of 14 PBY-4 aircraft. 9 April 1940: The squadrons of Patrol Wing 2 participated in Fleet Exercise XXI with the Army's 72nd Bombardment Squadron and 4th Reconnaissance Squadron ...
12 December 1944: The squadron's entire complement of aircraft and supplies was formally presented to the Forca Aerea Brazileira at Galeão Air Force Base, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Squadron personnel received orders for their return to NAS Norfolk on 15 December, and VPB-94 was officially disestablished on 22 December 1944.