Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina
Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina - this aircraft represents PBY-5, BUNO 2360 and was assigned to NAS Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii at the outbreak of the war. It was temporarily assigned to VP-71 on April 18, 1942, then returned to VP-14 on June 15, 1942. Having survived the devastation at Pearl Harbor, it was burned by her crew in August 1942 to keep it from falling into Japanese hands.
Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina
Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina - this aircraft represents PBY-5, BUNO 2360 and was assigned to NAS Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii at the outbreak of the war. It was temporarily assigned to VP-71 on April 18, 1942, then returned to VP-14 on June 15, 1942. Having survived the devastation at Pearl Harbor, it was burned by her crew in August 1942 to keep it from falling into Japanese hands.