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Air sea rescue units - GUAM 1945
Hi friends,
I´m looking for any info about US air sea rescue units, which were stationed at GUAM during 1945 and were equipped with PBY Catalinas. Any info will be warmly appreciared TIA Milan |
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Re: Air sea rescue units - GUAM 1945
A very quick and undoubtedly overly cusory look at the Aircraft Location Reports shows that the only PBY equipped unit operating out of Guam on a consistant basis in 1945 was a sometimes 2, sometimes 3, PBY detachment from VPB-23.
You can find the location reports here http://www.history.navy.mil/a-record...-ac/loc-ac.htm VPB, VH, and VE squadrons can be found in the Pacific Fleet Air Wings section of each report. The VPB-23 history can be found here http://www.history.navy.mil/avh-vol2/chap4-2.pdf The VH squadrons in the Marianas generally operated out of Saipan, VH-1, for example, out of Saipan also operated PBY-5s, but also operated PB2Y-3s and PBM-3Ds. VH-1 was later joined by VH-3 operating PBM-3Rs. The VE squadrons were reorganized in early January 1945 into Fleet Air Evac Wing 1 and were stationed at various locations about the Pacific. VE-1 was based out of Ulithi with detachments at Saipan, Kaneohe, and San Diego. VE-2 showed up at Guam in early March, equipped with R4D-5 and -6s. Rich |
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Re: Air sea rescue units - GUAM 1945
Milan-
8/45 - the 4th ERS moved from Iwo Jima to North Guam. Mike |
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