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High in the sky over the coast of Australia, the 131½-ton Catalina flying boat suddenly twisted and dived. Zeros protecting a Jap cruiser were blazing away. The Catalina shook them off and straightened...
...George," the automatic pilot, had been set by the human pilot before he died. The Catalina, her body riddled but her engines intact, drummed along through the sky. Keene had time to muse, stand around for "quite a while," open an after-hatch and gaze down 6,000 feet at the expanse of empty...
...lucky for Keene that he did take his time. The pilotless Catalina began to drone over land. Keene did not know what land, but he did not care. He buckled on his parachute and bailed out over British New Guinea. Bush natives showed him the way to Port Moresby. The last he saw of the Catalina and her oblivious crew, she was flying steadily...
Fortresses haunted the convoy until after dark, when an Australian-manned Navy Catalina picked up the convoy's phosphorescent wake. Three bombs from the Catalina blew up a big (14,000-ton) transport which probably carried...
...Catalina's changes, Maritime Service trainees lamented one great paradox: in the ballroom of the St. Catherine the hot band of Maritime Service Lieut. (j.g.) Phil Harris played music worthy of the island's hottest days, while in all of Avalon were only 14 single girls old enough for dates...