Click to open image viewer. Radar, twin .50 caliber guns in a power-driven bow turret, tall tail with a taller vertical fin first seen on the PBN-1; outrigger floats from each wingtip, hinged to fold ...
OAK HARBOR – Adolph Meisch talks about being aboard a U.S. Navy flying patrol boat in the mid-1940s trying to reach Adak Island from the community of Kodiak in the northern reaches of Alaska. John ...
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A TV news clip about the hazards of flying over Alaska brought me back almost 70 years. In early 1945 our squadron of PB4Y Privateer patrol bombers landed on Shemya Island, a dot in the ocean in the ...