The Story Of The Black Cats - WWII US Navy PBY's

[11SQNLDR]

I found this to be quite enjoyable and informative.

Filmed during the war the video tells of the US Navy's night ops using the Catalina in the Pacific - targetting Japanese shipping.

I 've never seen Catalinas sporting torpedos, i've always seen them with bombs or depth charges but never 'fish'.

I was interested to see the underwing platforms the armourers used for working on the bombs & attaching them to the aircraft.

As always with these wartime movies there are a few 'cheesy' bits - hamming it up for the folks back home but overall it shows some interesting footage.

Hit 'fullscreen' and enjoy

www.archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.12990

[corsair67]

Great footage, if not, as you said, a little cheesy at times.

Thanks for sharing the link.

[Peter Lewis]

Looking carefully at the background, I'd put money on the air base being Segond Channel, Vanuatu.

[sparrow]

Good find,enjoyed that,thanks.

Interesting statistic,"for every pound of bomb dropped,a ton of enemy shipping sunk or damaged". I wonder how accurate that is?