[ARC5] VF-13 Pilot's Radio Handbook

[Christopher Bowne]

Much appreciated link. The father of former coworker of mine was a Black Cat pilot. Although I certainly don’t remember it, my first aircraft flight was in a PBY when my mother was about 4 months along before I was born, and she was working In the offices of Remmert-Werner Aircraft at Lindbergh Field in St. Louis.  They did a lot of post-war conversions of PBYs, and military transports to executive aircraft.  My mom and a number of office staffers were taken up for joyrides periodically.  I was told that the PBY was being converted for TV and radio personality, pilot, (and ham radio operator K4LIB), Arthur Godfrey.  As far as I have been able to tell however, he never owned a PBY. He did have a DC-3 converted, which was more than likely also being worked on at RW when my mother worked there.

Needless to say, my first model airplane kit as a kid was a PBY!

Chris, AJ1G Stonington CT

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> On May 8, 2020, at 15:26, David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> U.S. Navy Carrier Fighter Squadron VF-13
> "Black Cats" (Established on 2 November 1943,
> disestablished on 20 October 1945},
> Pilot's Radio Handbook:
> https://drive.google.com/open?id=1MeZptIrmjVGsvWXHqwhGm1ZUVeRHNuPU
> 
> "VF-13 equipped with the F6F-5 Hellcat formed part of
> Carrier Air Group 13 (CVG-13) which was assigned
> to USS Franklin. In June 1944 the Franklin deployed to
> Pearl Harbor.  On 24 October during the 
> Battle of Leyte Gulf, CVG-13 participated in the sinking
> of the Japanese battleship Musashi. In early November
> 1944 following damage to Franklin in a Kamikaze attack,
> CVG-13 was temporarily land-based on Manus Island
> before re-embarking on Franklin as it proceeded to 
> Puget Sound for repairs.  In December 1944 CVG-13
> was reforming at Naval Air Station Alameda, and then
> subsequently underwent training at Naval Air Station Fallon
> and Naval Air Station Livermore. In early August 1945
> CVG-13 was assigned to USS Bunker Hill,
> but the war in the Pacific ended before they could deploy."
> 
> GL OM ES 73 DE Dave AB5S
> 
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