Nice article with a one sentence mention of USN PBY reconnaissance
support.

Actually VP-16 (re-designated VP-41) had been flying the Alaskan Pacific
since 1938, and by mid-1941 three Navy Aviation bases were there; Sitka,
Kodiak and Dutch Harbor - P2Y-2 and PBY-3.

My uncle Ed Froelich, then ACCM, now retired CDR in Pensacola, flew with
Lt. Paul Ramsey, later CINCPAC, when they flew out of a cloud and found
the Japanese. Good link at http://www.daileyint.com/flying/flywar6.htm

Chuck Huber



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