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dougvv

March 30, 2016 06:44PM

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Hi,

I just found out that the Navel had B25s (PBJ).

Of course Doolittle in 1942 used B25's from aircraft carriers to bomb Japan.

I did not realize that one was modified in late 1944.

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PBH-1H 43-4700 (BuNo 35277) was modified for aircraft carrier catapult launch and arrest retrievals. The first landings and catapult takeoffs took place aboard the USS Shangri La (CV-38) on November 15, 1944. Although the experiment was successful, no further work on a carrier-based Mitchell took place since American advances in the Pacific made such an aircraft unnecessary.

Learn something new every day. Today's was thanks to Otto Preminger and John Wayne - "In Harm's Way" 1965.

Doug vV

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