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The 1946 Antarctica PBM Mariner crash occurred on 30 December 1946, on Thurston Island, Antarctica when a United States Navy Martin PBM-5 Mariner crashed during a blizzard. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Buno 59098 was one of 4 aircraft lost during Operation Highjump .
The Martin PBM Mariner is a twin-engine American patrol bomber flying boat of World War II and the early Cold War era. It was designed to complement the Consolidated PBY Catalina and PB2Y Coronado in service. A total of 1,366 PBMs were built, with the first example flying on 18 February 1939, and the type entering service in September 1940 ...
After dark, two Martin PBM Mariner flying boats originally scheduled for their own training flights were diverted to perform square pattern searches in the area west of US Navy Squadron Training No. 49 [ 7 ] PBM-5 BuNo 59225 took off at 19:27 from Naval Air Station Banana River (now Patrick Space Force Base ), called in a routine radio message ...
English: The wreckage and survivors of the 30 December 1946 crash of a United States Navy Martin PBM-5 Mariner (BuNo 59098, callsign "George 1") on Thurston Island, Antarctica, photographed from another U.S. Navy PBM Mariner during search and rescue operations on 11 January 1947.
After the war ended five of the RAF aircraft were scrapped, one was already lost in collision with a Martin PBM Mariner and the last four were scuttled off the coast of Bermuda in 1946. [5] A PB2Y Coronado shoots down G4M "Betty" in 1944. In combat missions PB2Y claimed five enemy aircraft shot down over the course of WW2. [6]
Martin PBM Mariner The Martin P5M Marlin ( P-5 Marlin after 1962), built by the Glenn L. Martin Company of Middle River, Maryland , is a twin piston-engined flying boat that entered service in 1951, and served into the late 1960s with the United States Navy performing naval patrols.
On October 2, 1945, shortly after the war ended, Sample was listed as missing after his Martin PBM Mariner aircraft failed to return from a familiarization flight near Wakayama, Japan. Rear Admiral Sample was officially declared dead on October 3, 1946. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Virginia. [4]
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