P4BY-2 Privateer

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For starters let’s take a look at the planes Larry flew in: the Consolidated- Vultee PB4Y-2 Privateer, the PBY Catalina, and the “PB4Y2-1”??? I’m very familiar with the PBY Catalina and I know there was a Navy version of the B-24 with a (very) tall single tail (I always wondered why, and always felt the twin tails were much more aesthetically appealing), that had to be the PB4Y-2, but I really didn’t know much about it. Let’s do some poking around…

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