[ARC5] Famous PBY Found

[Sandy]

Bravo, Bravo!  I remember the "hoard" of PBY's at Coco Solo base in 
Panama Canal Zone where i went as a kid 4 years old just after "Pearl 
Harbor Day".  We spent 4 years there and returned to New Orleans just 
before "VE" day.  Years later I got some rides in them in Brazil doing 
radio maintenance on oil platforms in the Amazon River delta area.  
Consolidated aircraft had a factory in New Orleans that made parts for 
them during the war.

I am sure some of the old PBY's restored in New Orleans' "Lakefront 
airport" are maybe still flying in Brazil?

73 to all,

Sandy W5TVW

On 8/12/2015 9:29 AM, Robert Eleazer wrote:
>    The story of PBY-5A, CATALINA Strawberry 5 discovery and restoration for the US Navy museum in San Diego. It was the only remaining intact PBY-5 Catalina remaining in the World, and it was discovered in South Africa.
> PBY "STRAWBERRY 5" was the plane that found the Japanese carriers in the 'Battle of Midway'
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