World War II Photograph Search [flying boat]

60 items in this album on 3 pages.


H8K flying boat, 26 Dec 1942	Australian Catalina aircraft being serviced by No. 1 Flying Boat Maintenance Unit RAAF in Bowen, Queensland, Australia, early 1943	S.55 flying boat of the Romanian Air Force, circa 1943	WAAF radio-telephony operator at her position in a pinnace communicating landing instructions to aircraft, a RAF Coastal Command flying boat base, United Kingdom, date unknown

A war weary Sunderland III flying boat of Royal Australian Air Force No. 10 Squadron being hauled out of the water for an overhaul at Mount Batten Seaplane Base, Devon, England, United Kingdom, Jan 1943	B-17F “Mary Ruth - Memories of Mobile” and the 401st Bomb Squadron flying toward the German U-boat pens at Lorient, France, May 17 1943. This photo was taken from B-17 “Memphis Belle” on her last combat sortie.	Tourville at Casablanca, Morocco, circa Aug-Nov 1943; note Loire 130 flying boat and wo Latécoère 298 floatplanes stowed between the stacks, USS Cossatot and other French ships in background	US Army troops looking at a wrecked H8K flying boat, Makin, Gilbert Islands, Nov 1943

H6K flying boat burning in the water, 1944	A German Type VII U-Boat in the Atlantic under aerial attack from US Navy aircraft flying from a hunter-killer group built around an Escort Carrier, early 1944.	TBF Avenger from Escort Carrier USS Guadalcanal overflying the captured German Type IXC submarine U-505 as a salvage crew assembles on the U-Boat’s bow. A US whale boat and an escort stand by, 7 Jun 1944.	Destroyed Japanese flying boat, Saipan, Mariana Islands, Jun-Jul 1944

US Marines inspecting destroyed Japanese H8K flying boat, Saipan, Mariana Islands, Jun-Jul 1944	H8K flying boat in the midst of being shot down by the US Navy PB4Y-1 Liberator aircraft of Patrol Squadron VP-115 from which this photograph was taken, 2 Jul 1944. Photo 1 of 2.	H8K flying boat in the midst of being shot down by the US Navy PB4Y-1 Liberator aircraft of Patrol Squadron VP-115 from which this photograph was taken, 2 Jul 1944. Photo 2 of 2.	Kawanishi H6K ‘Mavis’ flying boat in surrender paint scheme abandoned at Surabaya, Java, 1945.

H8K flying boat taking off, US Navy Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River, Maryland, United States, 1946-1947; seen in Aug 1947 issue of US Navy publication Naval Aviation News	H8K2-L Seiku transport flying boat of Japanese 11th Naval Air Arsenal, Japan, circa late 1940s	British mechanics inspecting a captured Japanese H6K flying boat, Sourabaya, Java, Jan 1946	The former PT-694, a 70-foot Vosper, with the Hughes Tool Company as a service boat in the H-4 Flying Boat project, 1950s. Later sold to Universal Studios and painted as PT-73 for the opening credits of “McHale’s Navy.”