US Navy PBY Catalina units of the Pacific War
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. Although designed in the mid-1930s and in squadron service several years prior to the Pearl Harbor attack, the PBY Catalina proved its soundness in combat throughout the four years that World War II raged across the Pacific. Deadly in its primary role as a submarine hunter, the PBY was the scourge of the Imperial Japanese Navy's submarine force.
- Format
- 96 pages, Paperback
- First published
- 2007
- Publishers
- Osprey
- Subjects
- United States·Navy·Aviation·Catalina ·World War·1939-1945·Campaigns·Pacific Ocean·World War·1939-1945·Naval operations·American
- Language
- English
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Reviews
Great book and well written.
My father was a gunner on a PBY, stationed near Pearl Harbor on December 7th 1941. He would have loved this book.
Been a fan of "Dumbo" since a little kid. This finally covers the action encountered the issues with the aircraft.
Great.
This is a good introduction to PBY operations in the Pacific, but obviously it is a short book and it can't cover everything--if you are a PBY enthusiast, there are other titles worth grabbing in addition to this. The focus on early operations in the Philippines and Indonesia is particularly welcome, although reconstructing profiles of those aircraft required a certain degree of speculation.
Illustrations superb, bios of the aces good, campaign coverage adequate but not as informative as they could have been, but no information about the planes , their design, history and qualities or problems. I would not have bought it if i'd known.
The book is a good overall account of the PBY in the Pacific War of WWII against Japan. It also has accounts of production and reconnosance work done before and after the war.
I really like Lou's book because it does a good job of covering all the many operations and actions the PBY units in the Pacific were in. I especially like the early operations coverage of the PBY (Patrol Wing Ten in the Philippine/DEI and the Aleutians).
Louis B. Dorny's US NAVY PBY CATALINA UNITS OF THE PACIFIC WAR is the second of two volumes (the other being Ragnor Ragnarsson's US NAVY PBY CATALINA UNITS OF THE ATLANTIC WAR): each volume packs in vintage black and white photos, history, and close-up shots of the planes and each comes packed with statistics and history.
I have read numerious books about the PBY and its Squadrons. My interest is sparked by a relative who fly one in the South Pacific, VP 54 actually.