Click to open image viewer. Radar, twin .50 caliber guns in a power-driven bow turret, tall tail with a taller vertical fin first seen on the PBN-1; outrigger floats from each wingtip, hinged to fold ...

Before and after Dec. 7, 1941, the frequent appearance of big PBY Catalina flying boats skimming the wavetops in Pearl Harbor and Kaneohe Bay would have been an eye-catching sight. A PBY-5A Catalina ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - During World War II, America gained the upper hand on Japan’s imperial navy thanks in large part to what essentially was the world’s first stealth fighter, the PBY Catalina.

PORT CLINTON — On March 24, 1945, a newly-built PBY-6A Catalina airplane was delivered to Floyd Bennett Field, a U.S. Naval Station in Brooklyn, New York, where it began service in World War II.

Ron Miner of Salem used his father's wartime sketches and paintings to illustrate "Sketches of a Black Cat," the memoir Ron assembled from Howard Miner's notes and drawings. (Mike Francis / The ...

Nathan Gordon stretched his flying boat's capabilities past the limit - saving 15 downed USAAF crew members amid 18 foot swells.

Beachgoers at Orange Beach on the Alabama Gulf Coast got a surfside view this week when a vintage Navy PBY plane used during filming of USS Indianapolis: Men Of Courage landed offshore and began to ...

The new World War II thriller Greyhound is an exciting film that portrays the Battle of the Atlantic from the perspective of a U.S. Navy destroyer Captain, played by Tom Hanks. In the film’s opening ...

The Catalina was born on the frigid shores of Lake Erie in 1928 when Consolidated Aircraft Corporation, then located in Buffalo, assembled the XPY-1 prototype of a long-range flying patrol boat for ...