In June 1942, Japanese pilot Tadayoshi Koga crash-landed his Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero on Akutan Island in the Aleutians. The ...

OAK HARBOR – Adolph Meisch talks about being aboard a U.S. Navy flying patrol boat in the mid-1940s trying to reach Adak Island from the community of Kodiak in the northern reaches of Alaska. John ...

Click to open image viewer. Radar, twin .50 caliber guns in a power-driven bow turret, tall tail with a taller vertical fin first seen on the PBN-1; outrigger floats from each wingtip, hinged to fold ...

A TV news clip about the hazards of flying over Alaska brought me back almost 70 years. In early 1945 our squadron of PB4Y Privateer patrol bombers landed on Shemya Island, a dot in the ocean in the ...

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After a 67-year absence, a PBY 5A Catalina seaplane can once again call Whidbey Island Naval Air Station home. The flying boat, which was stationed in Oak Harbor in 1945, arrived at the Seaplane Base ...

"This Midway Island based PBY discovered part of the Japanese Fleet on 3 June 1942 setting the course of the battle." (Painting, oil on wood, by John Hamilton; C. 1975, now in the collections of U.S.