Morgans

Don't ever remember any PBY's making attacks on airfields and
anchorages? They were to slow and didn't have enough
hard points to carry a lot of bomb type devices. Easy picking for
fighters.

Most of their 'low' altitude flying was taking off and landing when
rescuing downed fliers.

Believe in the Atlantic, they on occasion attacked u-boats when they
were on anti sub patrol. Those birds were modified to carry some type
of bombs (depth charges). They might also have had a gun mount in each
side blister but that position was not a good location of guns to
attack anything.

On Internet, the only twin engine birds I saw that attacked Rabaul
were B-25's.

A long long shot was it could have been a Betty that the Japanese were
trying to recover or move to a location to get repaired. If tied down
on the deck might have been destroyed when ship was sunk????

There are still records of WWII but it takes a long time to go through
them to find any specific items.

Big John


On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 17:18:18 -0400, "Morgans"
wrote:


"Big John" wrote in message
.. .
Butch

Go to: http://yarchive/mil/rebaul_raids.html

B-25 outfits who made many strikes on Rabaul are listed with some text
of attacks. Their history (unit combat losses) might show what you
want?

Big John


On 1 Sep 2003 15:51:20 -0700, (butch burton)
wrote:


Didn't PBY's also work in that area? Black cats liked to fly down on the
deck.