2009年1月16日 · Patrol Wing TEN's raid on Jolo Island in the Philippines on 27 December 1941, was mounted from Ambon, in the NE. Six PBY-4 Catalina flying boats took off, they were intercepted by Japanese fighters over the island, and only two returned.

2019年8月31日 · The first-ever U.S. offensive airstrike of the Pacific War, which came nearly four months before the Doolittle Raid, was flown by six PBYs out of Ambon Island, in the Dutch East Indies, to bomb a...

In December 1941, it was a Zero with two or three machine guns and a cannon against a large and vulnerable flying boat. The PBY’s gunner, with a single machine gun, had a fleeting, wasp-like target. The impact of the Jolo raid and a similar tragedy at Kema a few days later forced Patrol Wing Ten to change its tactics.

With the evacuation of Ambon in mid-January, the normal method of operation was 2-3 plane detachments with the tenders Preston, Childs, and Heron at various locations throughout the NEI and at...

At the start of the Pacific War Morokrembangan Naval Air Base was the largest and best equipped naval air base in Southeast Asia and considered to be one of the most modern naval air bases in the world. [4][5]

19 May 1944: After the occupation of Hollandia, the squadron moved aboard Heron (AVP 2) in Humboldt Bay. With VP-52, the squadron conducted. A PBY takes off from its base at Samarai Island, New...

2022年6月13日 · PBY-5A卡塔琳娜水上飞机（英文：Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina），是美国联合飞机公司研制的一型水上飞机。 该机在第二次世界大战期间广泛装备于美英海空军及苏联航空兵。

2007年12月5日 · pby "strawberry 5" was the plane that found the japanese carriers at the battle of midway which became the turning point in the pacific theater of wwii. This video story is of PBY-5A CATALINA (Strawberry 5), it's discovery and restoration for the US Navy museum in …

2016年3月10日 · The PBY-5A was an amphibious variant equipped with retractable tricycle landing gear. It was 63 feet, 10-7/16 inches long (19.468 meters) with a wing span of 104 feet, 0 inches (31.699 meters) and overall height of 20 feet, 2 inches (6.147 meters).

The document discusses the Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boat, including its initial development in the 1930s, roles in World War 2 such as anti-submarine warfare and maritime patrol, and variants produced for different military branches and countries.