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 ...

Until someone turns up with a better weather yarn, airmen of the Aleutians forces will stick to Hannibal, the hitchhiking sea gull. Hannibal, the story goes, turned up on the wing of a Navy Catalina ...

Text printed on the recto side of the leaves. Probable date range of issue based on dates of production for the PBY-3. 1. Foreword -- 2. General description -- 3. Power plant description -- 4. Engine ...

The United States created many famous and formidable warplanes in the second world war. These included the B-17 Flying ...

Robert Paul Pinkney of Yountville is preparing to celebrate his 100th birthday. Pinkney, born in Bath, Michigan on May 8, 1917, flew the Consolidated PBY Catalina, one of the airplanes that helped win ...

The feathers of one of Oak Harbor’s most beloved birds were significantly brightened this week. “Gerral’s Girl,” the affectionately named PBY-5A Catalina flying boat that returned to the Sea Plane ...

An in-depth look at the American Heritage Museum's restoration of PBY-5A Catalina BuNo 2459, the world's oldest flying Catalina. Rob Collings shares progress on the aircraft's unique systems, interior ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the incredible things about Americans, according to the Japanese, is the great trouble and expense they endure to rescue one man. But to Americans a comrade’s life is more than a unit of supply ...