File:PBY-5A Catalina in a gale on Adak island in February 1943.jpg

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Description A U.S. Navy Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina in a 60 knot (110 kph) gale on Adak, Aleutian Islands, Alaska (USA), in February 1943.
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Source U.S. National Archives photo 80-G-041721 from U.S. National Park Service: World War II in Alaska and the Aleutian Islands.
Author U.S. Navy

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current15:13, 26 October 2016Thumbnail for version as of 15:13, 26 October 2016867 × 703 (313 KB)Cobatfor (talk | contribs)NPS file
00:44, 8 May 2007Thumbnail for version as of 00:44, 8 May 2007252 × 206 (9 KB)Cla68 (talk | contribs)A pilot braces himself against the fierce Aleutian weather. A Consolidated PBY Catalina (a.k.a., "15-ton Flying Boat") is held down by massive blocks. Probably winter of 1943. National Archives photo #80-G-041721 [http://www.nps.gov/aleu/historyculture

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