Consolidated PBY Catalina – Gaëtan Marie's Aviation Profiles https://www.gaetanmarie.com High Quality Digital Aviation Art Mon, 26 Mar 2018 10:47:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.gaetanmarie.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/cropped-Favicon-32x32.png Consolidated PBY Catalina – Gaëtan Marie's Aviation Profiles https://www.gaetanmarie.com 32 32 Ens. William Tanner’s PBY-5 during the Pearl Harbor attack https://www.gaetanmarie.com/ens-william-tanners-pby-5-during-the-pearl-harbor-attack/ https://www.gaetanmarie.com/ens-william-tanners-pby-5-during-the-pearl-harbor-attack/#respond Mon, 05 Mar 2018 09:31:12 +0000 https://gaetanmarie.com/?p=1953 Continue reading Ens. William Tanner’s PBY-5 during the Pearl Harbor attack]]>

Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina BuNo 2419 was flown by Ensign William Tanner of VP-14 on 7 December 1941. Tanner had been warned “to be alert during this period of great tension”. A few hours before the Japanese air raid, Tanner spotted a Japanese midget submarine trying to penetrate the harbor and destroyed it with the assistance of the destroyer USS Ward.

Catalinas of VP-14 in November 1941. The closest aircraft, 14-P-1, was assigned to VP-14’s commanding officer and was used the one by Tanner and his crew to destroy a Japanese midget submarine shortly before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
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This profile was created for Historia magazine’s special issue on great historical battles.

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