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The Martin PBM Mariner is a twin-engine American patrol bomber flying boat of World War II and the early Cold War era. It was designed to complement the Consolidated PBY Catalina and PB2Y Coronado in service. A total of 1,366 PBMs were built, with the first example flying on 18 February 1939, and the type entering service in September 1940 ...
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The loss of PBM-5 BuNo 59225 was attributed to an explosion. [3] This report was subsequently amended "cause unknown" by the Navy after Taylor's mother contended that the Navy was unfairly blaming her son for the loss of 5 aircraft and 14 men, when the Navy had neither the bodies nor the airplanes as evidence. [10]
English: The wreckage and survivors of the 30 December 1946 crash of a United States Navy Martin PBM-5 Mariner (BuNo 59098, callsign "George 1") on Thurston Island, Antarctica, photographed from another U.S. Navy PBM Mariner during search and rescue operations on 11 January 1947.
December 5 – Flight 19, a formation of five U.S. Navy TBM Avengers with a total of 14 men aboard, vanishes without trace over the Atlantic Ocean east of Florida. A U.S. Navy PBM-5 Mariner flying boat sent to search for the Avengers also disappears with the loss of all 13 men aboard, apparently the victim of an accidental mid-air explosion.
Martin Baltimore medium bomber: 1941: retired 1949: 1,575: Martin PBM Mariner maritime patrol: 1939: retired 1964: 1,285: Martin Maryland medium bomber/reconnaissance bomber: 1939: retired 1945: 450: Martin AM Mauler attack aircraft: 1944: retired 1953: 151: Martin XB-27 heavy bomber: n/a: abandoned project: 0: Martin XB-33 Super Marauder heavy ...
In June, VR-5 was commission at Seattle to provide service to Alaska with R4D and R5Ds. The next month, VR-1 at Norfolk, moved to the recently opened NAS Patuxent River, Maryland. Several months later, VR-8 was established, and took over VR-1s transport seaplane operations. That September, VR-11 formed at Naval Air Station Oakland
The 1946 Antarctica PBM Mariner crash occurred on 30 December 1946, on Thurston Island, Antarctica when a United States Navy Martin PBM-5 Mariner crashed during a blizzard. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Buno 59098 was one of 4 aircraft lost during Operation Highjump .