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Originally Posted by Juha
Hello Paul
Thanks for the interesting links and sources. ...
Juha
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Hello Juha,
You are welcome. I will translate the Morozov extract this weekend, whenI should have a moment to focus on it. Even though I have no knowledge of Norwegian, I will try to take a look at the book you mentioned when I can. It is available at 4 or more national libraries in Europe, so that will be easier than I expected!
Healy's story, as well as that of the Langdon brothers, is quite extraordinary. These stories emphasise how great a share of the burden of that war was carried by 'the few', whether flying fighters or other aircraft. The casualty rates that they suffered are also astonishing. So many of them, like Adrian Warburton and Healy, seem to have been exposed to danger more frequently than almost any other participants in the war.
I have finally found some information on the Russian part of the Catalina's Arctic operations. These Russian-language links have malfunctioned in this post, again, but pasting them into the browser search box will work normally:
Review of the Catalina's service in the USSR
http://www.almanacwhf.ru/index.php?o...=article&id=27
Transfer flights of Catalinas to the USSR in 1944
arh.mk.ru/article/2013/07/24/890618-mezhdu-nebom-i-morem.html
Catalinas on Novaya Zemlya in 1944
belushka.ru/site/istoriya-novoj-zemli/147-aviatsiya-novozemelskoj-bazy
Catalina activities on the White Sea in 1944
www.polarpost.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=622
Photograph of PBN-1 Nomad in service with 118 ORAP of the Northern Fleet
waralbum.ru/21393/
Strength of the aviation of the Soviet Northern Fleet at various dates during the war
blockhaus.ru/forum/topic/22924-nemnogo-o-morskih-konvojah-i-murmanske/page-13#entry251912
Modification of Soviet Catalinas with ASh-82FN engines after the war - the modified aircraft were renamed KM-2
alternathistory.org.ua/ispytano-v-sssr-vtoroe-dykhanie-kataliny
Regards,
Paul