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...Navy Lieut. Eugene Sanford, ex-policeman from Evanston, Ill., was riding in a launch off Saipan when he saw a big PB2Y flying boat sinking. Japs who had been hiding in Saipan's caves for three months had swum out to the plane and blown a hole in it with a hand grenade. Lieut. Sanford killed the Japs with a Tommy gun-a fate which they must have known was inevitable...
...PB2Y (patrol plane) may now be officially spoken of as the Coronado, the P-40F (fighter) the Warhawk, the SBD (dive-bomber) the Dauntless. But it was still hard to visualize a dusty, sweaty operations officer telling a pilot to "get in that Skymaster and take some food up to the boys at Buna." (Skymaster-C-54 four-engined transport...
...from the British, who have given their planes such lively names as Hurricane and Spitfire, the Navy last week gave names to its planes. Abandoned (except for official correspondence) was the Navy's peculiar code of airplane designations: SO3C (for Scout Observation plane, type 3, made by Curtiss), PB2Y (for Patrol Bomber, type 2, made by Consolidated), etc. The new lexicon...
Coronado for the Consolidated PB2Y...
...press-has a top of 398, carries six guns. ¶ Army's new four-motored Consolidated ("Liberator") does a fancy (for a bomber) 335 m.p.h., has a range of 3,000 miles with two tons of bombs. ¶ Navy's four-motored Consolidated patrol boat PB2Y-I has a top of 220, a range of 5,200 miles with 4,200 Ib. of bombs-a handy piece of equipment for anti-submarine patrol. ¶ Navy's two-motored Consolidated ("Catalina") the British call one of the world's most efficient flying boats. Top speed: 285, range...
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