PBY: The Catalina Flying Boat

Creed, Roscoe

ISBN 10: 0870215264 / ISBN 13: 9780870215261

Published by Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 1986

About this Item

Hardcover, russet cloth lettered on spine in silver, in publishers non-priced and non-clipped dust-jacket. 351 pages. Appendices, Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with black and white photographs, maps and line drawings. First edition. A comprehensive and well written history of the Catalina, whose importance during World War II often is understated. No previous ownership marks. Remainder strip on bottom edge, else, a clean, fresh, unmarked and near as new copy. Fine in a fine dust-jacket.

Seller Inventory # 022195

Bibliographic Details

• Title: PBY: The Catalina Flying Boat
• Publisher: Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0870215264
• ISBN 13: 9780870215261
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Weight: 2.31 pounds
• Seller catalogs:
  • Aviation and Airplanes
  • Military

About this title

Synopsis

The greatest of all flying boats, the PBY Catalina, was one of the most versatile aircraft ever built. This definitive study, first published in 1985, pulls together in a single volume all of the aircraft's fascinating facts. The author carefully analyzes the PBY's dual use in the war as a plane of mercy and as a bomber, and he chronicles the flying boat's contributions in peacetime.