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"Blueskies" wrote:

Remember the story about the PBY that picked up folks from Doolittle's
raid over Japan? So many of the B-26s ditched and so many folks needed
a ride, that they couldn't take off. Ended up 'taxiing' to safety with
folks all over the plane, some even out on the wings...



No Catalinas picked up anyone from Doolittle's raid. And they flew B-25's


Bertie


Yes, B-25s...and I don't know where I got that PBY story, but it happened somewhere in WWII...Maybe Kontiki's account is
the beginning of it...

Not a PBY, but I saw a photo of a Kingfisher that rescued a PBY crew and couldn't
take off. They were picked up by Tang off of Truk. Here's the page with the
photo (search for "Kingfisher") http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/08306.htm
or here directly to skip past the caption http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/0830603.jpg.

Mike Beede