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PBY 5A Catalina
Comments 0 | Recommend 0April 09, 2008 3:34 PM
Unlike many preserved or flying aircraft this Catalina PBY-5A has a true wartime service record, albeit a career that involved many days of mundane maritime patrol work protecting allied shipping from submarine attack. Whilst action for patrol aircraft was scarce their very presence would often be enough to stop a submarine from making an attack.
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