pby catalina

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tentando descobrir o que era um "pby blister gunner" descobri que na realidade pby se referia a um dos meus fetiches da aviação
trying to discover what a "pby blister gunner" was, i discovered that pby refers one of my aviation fetishes

pby catalina





aqui fotografado por howard hollem em 1942
here photographed by howard hollem in 1942

[Plane at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas]
[Working with a sea-plane at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas]
[It's an intricate operation - installing a 30-calibre machine gun in a Navy PBY plane, but not too tricky for Jesse Rhodes Waller, Corpus Christi, Texas. He's a Georgia man who's been in the Navy 5-1/2 years. At the Naval Air Base he sees that the flying ships are kept in tip-top shape. Waller is an aviation ordnance mate]

fotografias da maravilhosa colecção da "farm security administration-office of war information" guardadas na biblioteca do congresso, em washington e disponibilizadas na net
photos from the wonderful "farm security administration-office of war information" collection stored in the library of congress in washington and available in the net