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 …

Six PBY’s took off from Ambon Island in the Dutch East Indies to bomb a Japanese base at Jolo in the southwest Philippines. The Catalina’s were the only aircraft with the range to make the …

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 …

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 …

1941年12月27日凌晨，VP-101中队的6架PBY-4从荷属东印度群岛安汶岛（Ambon）起飞攻击菲律宾霍洛港（Jolo）的日军舰艇。 每架飞机挂载3枚227千克炸弹，计划进行3机双编队水平轰炸。

2016年5月24日 · 1941 年 12 月 27 日凌晨，VP-101 中队的 6 架 PBY-4 从荷属东印度群岛安汶岛（Ambon）起飞攻击菲律宾霍洛港（Jolo）的日军舰艇。 每架飞机挂载 3 枚 227 千克炸弹， …

The floatplane was shot down by a Japanese fighter and crashed near Ambon. Crew fate unknown.

On the 25th VP-101 was relocated to Ambon, N.E.I. 27 Dec 1941: Six of the squadron’s PBY-4 Catalinas, led by Lieutenant Burden R. Hastings, conducted an early morning attack against …

The floatplane was shot down by a Japanese fighter and crashed in the region of Ambon. The entire crew was killed.

The Consolidated PBY Catalina was the main long range reconnaissance aircraft in use with the US Navy in the first half of the Second World War