PB4Y crews and artwork

[oose]

Hi all, some Navy stuff now... a lot from VPB-111 plus some other VPB units.

Similar artwork on this M-422a that was on ebay a few months ago!

Hope you like.

Yours stu

 

[greyhound52]

Re: PBY crews and artwork

Great photos thanks for putting them on.

 

[dujardin]

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many many thanks,

really like the last one.
great photossss

byeeeeeeeee marcel

 

[Andrew]

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More great pictures Stu, thanks alot.

Coming from a culture where we have always had quite separate Armed Forces definitions and roles, can someone please educate me on what these particular Navy Crews were doing and why they had their own dedicated (what appears to be) bomber corps? It's obviously something that the AAF couldn't do but working in parallel-it intrigues me.

Thanks

 

[oose]

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Hi, few more mixed bag some just post war in the early 50's.

Most of the PB4Y pics above were taken on the Mariana Islands.

 

[Anonymous]

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Great pic's Booze, dames, jackets and airplanes! Thats what sailors like! (brown shoe sailors anyway). Not too sure about black shoes.

 

[zoomer]

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Umm...fantastic pix, but these are PB4Ys (Liberator or Privateer), not PBYs (Catalina).

In answer to Leadsky: one thing Navy patrol squadrons (VPs) did was...patrol (antisub mostly).
Another was photorecon. A dear friend of mine flew Liberators out of Kodiak in 1949-'51, photographing the Naval Petroleum Reserve areas. Most of them had never been well mapped; some hadn't even been fully explored. Al carried a .38 in a shoulder holster just in case of a forced landing in bear country. Thankfully, he never had one.

Now, can we all agree this a/c's actual name was censored?

BIG DICK might have been just a big guy named Dick, but might have also meant something else in relation to the "censored" name... :geek:

 

[Chandler]

Re: PBY crews and artwork

Umm...fantastic pix, but these are PB4Ys (Liberator or Privateer), not PBYs (Catalina).

Thanks for clearing that up, I was a little confused, but enjoyed the pics nonetheless. Don't let anyone tell you the Navy wouldn't put patches on their FJs!

Chandler

 

[oose]

Sorry title changed!

Yours stu

 

[Django]

Wow, where did you find all these?? Thanks for posting! There's at least 1, maybe 2 PB4Y-2 Privateers in there as well.

Can I share these with the fellas at the WIX?

 

[oose]

hi,

http://www.vpnavy.com/crew_vp01_vp09.html

lots of stuff here patches as well.

 

[zoomer]

Great site. Mostly for vets, tho, so there isn't info on every squadron, just the ones of vets who found the site.

Before today I had never seen a pic of a Navy officer with his service cap crushed. :?

 

[Anonymous]

If you ever read PT-109, this was common with PT Boat crewmen also. Very salty too.

 

[Swing]

Re: PBY crews and artwork

Umm...fantastic pix, but these are PB4Ys (Liberator or Privateer), not PBYs (Catalina).

Yep,

Patrol Bomber 4th design Y the letter assigned by the Navy to Consolidated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBY_Catalina

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PB2Y_Coronado

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_XPB3Y

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PB4Y

~Swing

 

[Peter Graham]

Awesome pics. Does anyone know what those parkas are in the colour photo, cause I want one.

 

[tamoko]

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[Chandler]

Does anyone know what those parkas are in the colour photo, cause I want one.

Aren't they first-issue N3s?

Chandler

 

[Swing]

Does anyone know what those parkas are in the colour photo, cause I want one.

Aren't they first-issue N3s?

Chandler

I think they're one of these.

http://www.fishtailparkas.com/m1951_BUY ... _parka.htm

~Swing

 

[Chandler]

I think they're one of these.

http://www.fishtailparkas.com/m1951_BUY ... _parka.htm

~Swing

The pockets in the posted pick look more square, and this fishtail looks longer. JMO, though -- not really into anything later than WW2.

Could they be B-9s?
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=2556

Chandler

 

[Peter Graham]

I think the parka's are D-2's. Compare this.
http://www.buzzricksons.jp/product/army ... -0024.html