Publisher/Brand Pen & Sword
Author Andrew Hendrie
Format a4
No. Pages 256
Version Hard cover
Language English
Category Books on aviation
Subcategory WW2 US » WW2 US Aircraft
Availability Product out of stock and no longer available.
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25 jaar Catalina in Nederland, een herinnering van Prudent Staal | Geromy | € 18.30 | |||
Catalina PBY | Clivedon | € 7.40 | |||
Catalina PBY-5 Vintage metal poster metal sign | € 11.53 | ||||
Consolidated PBY Catalina | Hall Park | Warpaint Series No 79 | € 21.06 | ||
Consolidated PBY5A Catalina 16-218, een icoon uit het verleden, symbool voor de toekomst | All Media Production | Dossier 001 | € 13.72 | ||
De Consolidated Catalina in dienst van de Marine Luchtvaart Dienst en civiele operators | Geromy | € 41.24 | |||
PBY Catalina A Beautiful View! Pin up metal poster metal sign | Vintage Pinup Collection | € 11.53 | |||
PBY Catalina in Action | Squadron | In Action 10232 | € 21.06 |
The Consolidated PBY Catalina was probably the most versatile and successful flying boat/amphibian ever built, serving not just with the US Army Air Force, Navy and Coast Guard during the Second World War, but also with the air forces of Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, with the Danes, Free French and Norwegians as well as Brazil, Chile, Indonesia and elsewhere. With a remarkable lifting capacity and endurance, this long-range twin-engine aircraft could absorb a great deal of punishment and still return home after flights lasting an entire day and covering thousands of miles. It was employed as a maritime reconnaissance aircraft, as a bomber and torpedo-bomber, as an anti-submarine weapon, as a mine-layer, as a special operations machine and as a search and rescue craft by day and night. It ferried stores, mail and people – many of them sick and injured – across all the world's oceans and is rightly held in the deepest respect by all who had anything to do with them, flying or being flown.
In this book, Andrew Hendrie tells the whole amazing story of the 'Flying Cats', of their exploits and achievements, of the heroism of many of their crews and the problems they had to endure.
With numerous photographs as well as appendices listing technical data and individual aircraft histories, this is the definitive history of the Catalina and its operations world-wide.
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