B-17s straffing & IJN Aoba, & UK POWs

"Peter Stickney" wrote in message
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The PBY is an amazing beast - I've never been inside one, but I've
seen
a couple of them fly.
It's a big airplane - it bulks out about the same as a B-17, with
half
as many engines....
Pete Stickney

The only one I was able to examine closely (at MHT) was IIRC a partly
restored former houseboat that had received the amphibian conversion
and a rear door after the war with whatever parts were available. It
was far from a museum-quality original.

I didn't know in advance how many rare classics would be at that
airshow so I took my pre-war Leica instead of the SLR and couldn't
capture interior detail.

jsw