[ARC5] PBY Radios

[Michael Bittner]

The PBM-5s that I trained on could carry two Mark 13 torpedoes, one inside each engine nacelle. Nacelle doors opened like the bomb bay doors on a B-17.   Mike W6MAB



----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Clare Owens 
  To: Phillip Carpenter 
  Cc: Discussion of AN/ARC-5 military radio equipment. 
  Sent: Friday, May 19, 2017 11:24 AM
  Subject: Re: [ARC5] PBY Radios


  This discussion brings yo mind that a year or two ago I bought a WW II sailor's notebook at the Syracuse, NY flea market.  The sailor's name was S.Szabla, who died in Oneida, NY in 2005.  He was assigned to VP-202 and was an aviation ordinance mechanic (AOM) working on PBM Mariners.  I scanned the book at high resolution and sent it to the VP-202 web site but if anyone wants a copy I can send a pdf - but it is 120MB so regular email will not work.  There is no mention of radios but there is a lot of text and several detailed hand drawings regarding the armament, hydraulic systems. bombs, etc.  Also, in 1947 he apparently got into buying and selling some war surplus clothing, which he kept track of in the book.


  Clare



  On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 12:58 PM, Phillip Carpenter <carpenterpa at tds.net> wrote:

    Dad's PBY-5A carried depth charges and coordinated with the PT boats to ensure the sinking of Jap shipping and submarines. If the PBY dropped depth charges didn't sink the sub they would continue to follow it with a watchful eye until the PT boat took over sinking her.

    Phillip W4RTX

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    > On May 19, 2017, at 12:03 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com> wrote:
    >
    >> On 19 May 2017 at 11:51, Raymond F Chase wrote:
    >>
    >> I was just researching the Midway Naval battle and found that somehow they
    >> fitted PBY's with torpedoes and one sunk a Jap tanker with its torpedo.
    >> Surprisingly the torpedo worked, at this stage of the war our torpedoes
    >> often failed to function.
    >> Ray
    >
    > No "somehow" about it: they were commonly fitted to carry either two torpedos, or at least 2
    > depth charges. As I remember it, there was a mechanism in place to crank depth charges out
    > to their drop-points from inside the fuselage.
    >
    > You're right about our torpedos early in the war: they were terrible, unreliable, downright
    > dangerous to the users, etc. The story of all that is downright depressing.
    >
    > But they were finally modified to work correctly...after in at least one case one of our own
    > submarines was sunk by its own torpedo circling back to where it had been fired from. There
    > were also at least one case of a "near miss" due to the same thing.
    >
    > The Japanese "long lance" torpedo was superb...although dangerous to its crews.
    >
    > Ken W7EKB
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