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The Consolidated Model 28, more commonly known as the PBY Catalina (US Navy designation), is a flying boat and amphibious aircraft designed by Consolidated Aircraft in the 1930s and 1940s. In US Army service it was designated the OA-10 , in Canadian service as the Canso and it later received the NATO reporting name Mop . [ 4 ]
Japanese transport ship Hayataka Maru; Japanese destroyer Hayate (1925) Heian Maru (1930) USS Helena (CL-50) USS Herring; MV Herstein (1938) Japanese battleship Hiei; Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryū; Japanese destroyer Hishi (1921) Japanese aircraft carrier Hiyō; Japanese destroyer Hokaze; Japanese stores ship Hokkai Maru (1934) USS Hornbill ...
A Kaidai 6-type submarine sunk by United States Navy dive bomber aircraft northeast of the eastern end of Molokai in the Hawaiian Islands. The first Japanese warship sunk by U.S. aircraft during World War II and the first fleet submarine lost in the Pacific campaign of World War II.
The British Pacific Fleet (BPF) was a Royal Navy formation that saw action against Japan during the Second World War.It was formed from aircraft carriers, other surface warships, submarines and supply vessels of the RN and British Commonwealth navies in November 1944.
Guided bombs developed during the war made it much easier for aircraft to sink battleships. By the end of the war, battleship construction was all but halted, and almost every existing battleship was retired or scrapped within a few years of its end. The Second World War saw the end of the battleship as the dominant force in the world's navies.
Another photo shows a piece of metal stamped with “Model P-38 JK.” “The plane's association with Richard Bong makes it one of the most significant World War II aircraft in the world ...
The South Carolina-based deep-sea explorer who stumbled upon what he believed to be Amelia Earhart’s long-lost plane in the Pacific Ocean has now confirmed his once-promising discovery was just ...
PBMs were also heavily used in the Pacific War, operating from bases at Saipan, Okinawa, Iwo Jima, and the South West Pacific. [8] The United States Coast Guard acquired 27 Martin PBM-3 aircraft during the first half of 1943. In late 1944, the service acquired 41 PBM-5 models and more were delivered in the latter half of 1945.