Photos: PBY-5A
1943-Jan

Four-wheelin' in a PBY?

Caption1:
PBY-5
PatWing 4
Amchitka
Jan 43


Caption2:
Official U.S. Navy Photograph
80-G-41963
Occupation of Amchitka, Aleutians, January 1943.
A Navy PBY-5A "Catalina" patrol bomber raises a cloud of mud as it lands on the landing field at Amchitka.

Books:
No Tumult, No Shoutingp86


(Photo from the R.L.Lawson collection, courtesy of the Nat'l Museum of Naval Aviation)