Flying Cats: The Catalina Aircraft in World War II
Annapolos: Naval Institute Press, 1988. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. First American edition/ printing. Hardcover. Map endpapers. 240 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrated with photographs and a technical schematic. The history of the Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boat/amphibian and its uses in World War II. The Catalina was the most versitile and successful such aircraft ever built, serving not just with the U.S. Army Air Force, Navy and Coast Guard but also with the air firces of Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Danes, the Free French and Norwegians as ell as in Brazil, Chile, Indonesia and elsewhere. Fine / fine. Item #E33036
ISBN: 0870212133
Price: $17.95