Pacific Wrecks Forum

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make the the date of the crash, march 8, 1944.

i'm a commercial pilot, son of career us navy aviator who started his combat tours in 1943, flying pby blackcats for vp-12 in the solomons. his squadron lost crew #3, in pby5a #48259 when they crashed into a mountain during bad weather in night ops over choiseul, march 8, 1943. in 1993 my father, a ...