A U.S. Navy Catalina patrol bomber (PBY) glides up to its tender following a long sweep over Aleutian waters in October 1943
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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434. Photograph. 'File No: AP-PBY-43393 October 27, 1943 Swan's way--- Skimming the water in a manner reminiscent of the majestic progress of a swan, a U. S. Navy Catalina patrol bomber (PBY) glides up to its tender following a long sweep over Aleutian waters.' 27 October 1943 Included with the photograph is a Navy Department Press and Radio Release dated February 8, 1944. The press release tells the story of a PBY operating in the Atlantic that sunk a German U-Boat, suffered damage from anti aircraft fire from the U-Boat, dropped rafts to the surviving German crewmen, and the rescue of the crewmen by an American yacht serving in the U. S. Navy as the USS Siren. 27 October 1943
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The Charles Ives Collection consists of 719 photographs from the Pacific Theater of WWII. Many of the photographs were taken between 1944 and 1945. Mr. Ives inherited the photographs from a friend from Marblehead, Massachusetts who served as an aviator in the Army Air Corps and discharged as a Major in 1945.
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Aleutian Islands
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56.383
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-131.317
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Seaplanes--American--Aleutian Islands
Mountains--Aleutian Islands
Harbors--Aleutian Islands