PBM Mariner OS2U Kingfisher PBY Catalina Navy Film from 1942

Ride along for some gritty wartime footage showing the Martin PBM Mariner, Vought OS2U Kingfisher, and Consolidated PBY Catalina. Navy caption material says this footage is supplemental material for a film production about patrol pilots.
The use of national insignia on both wings, minus red centers, suggests this film dates to 1942.
Martin's massive twin-engine PBM Mariner flying boat had a wingspan eight feet bigger than a four-engine B-24 Liberator bomber. The PBM-3 in this film is powered by Wright R-2600 engines delivering 1700 horsepower each. Behind the engines, each nacelle contains an enclosed bomb bay.
The Vought OS2U Kingfisher was a versatile scout aircraft that sometimes performed search-and-rescue duties. It cruised at one-hundred nineteen miles an hour at 5,000 feet, and had a service ceiling of 13,000 feet. More than one thousand five hundred Kingfishers were built, including some by the Naval Aircraft Factory.
The Consolidated PBY Catalina was a 1930s design upgraded and produced until 1945. More than 3,300 Catalinas were built, including some by the Naval Aircraft Factory and plants in Canada, plus a small number of Soviet copies. Catalinas were important search and patrol aircraft from the beginning of the Pacific war.
A float creeps into view in several scenes. Its parallel struts with bracing wires, and angled-cut aft end suggests the photo plane was a Grumman JRF Goose. A different float type in some scenes, with more struts and a pointed aft end, is like those of the PBM Mariner.
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[@joeschenk8400]

This is another gem! The first PBM is an early model with retracting floats, the second one is sending morse, does anyone read what they are sending? The flush deck destroyer seems to be picking up survivors. The great collection of freighters and tankers is amazing....I see a couple of Canadian built Fort class ships and several ships seem to be in the same camo pattern of dark center hull with lighter bow and stern. The sinking tanker seems to be a T-2 tanker and it appears she has a broken back. Thanks for posting...more please...music also great!

[@airailimages]

Thanks! Always appreciate your observations on the ships.

[@dawsoncolvert5894]

The pbms had huge raydome atop for carrying all transmitters for the hub of land air and sea communication. It's what won the war, truly. Without it we had no way to land in open Pacific until island hopping campaign gained landing strips for larger aircraft to aid.

[@garyhooper1820]

Thanks for posting the old clips .

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You are welcome... more to come.

[@ervinvice1521]

Love the music - and of course the footage!

[@airailimages]

Thanks!

[@johnshallman508]

I'm sure boring duty for the most part but man, it was all so incredibly important. Also - that is a lot of oil in the water around those ships in harbor.

[@airailimages]

I wonder if it was all wartime emergency actions in 1942, and some ships needed maintenance but had to keep going?

[@lwilton]

OSU: "Old, Slow, and Useless". A common description of the day.

[@roybartran6756]

that was so cool...i love the Kingfisher and naval aviation.

[@airailimages]

Yes -- the Kingfisher is a quirky, interesting airplane. Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@Aftershock3D]

love yor effort of this footage, some classic martin pbm mariner, the music is so cool , see u in my vide0s, God Bless!!

[@Cybersawz]

Love it! Thanks for your efforts! 😛

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My pleasure!

[@birdzzzondayflu2489]

My grandpa was a flight engineer on a mariner during WW2 - VPB 208 combat aircrew QUEEN - they were shot down off Okinawa

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Thanks for watching and commenting. It's good to hear from the families of veterans.

[@martinpennock9430]

What a great video! Love the WWII videos! Thanks again for all you do and as always God bless you and yours! 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@airailimages]

Thanks! Coming up: More World War II film with amazing B-24 battle damage.

[@Chilly_Billy]

Love those classic amphibs.

[@ChiefAUS]

Any idea on where these films were shot? Thanks for all the work you do in finding these old films and showing them to us.

[@airailimages]

The caption material does not identify the location, unfortunately.

[@joeschenk8400]

It is only a guess but the roadstead looks like the Caribbean. It certainly does not look like any place in the US.

[@johnw4659]

I'd love to know what they are signaling at the 4:00 mark. Thanks for another great video!

[@airailimages]

You are welcome! Thanks for watching. Don't know about the signal...

[@markmark2080]

Love the opening view of the many ships at anchor, each with it's collection of random strangers from random locations thrown together to form the crew of some random ship to transport who knows what to who knows where... And down in each hot dirty engine room (The Hole) is a gang of dirty, sweaty men hoping that if they get hit bad, that they aren't down there when it happens...

[@Wideoval73]

Really like your videos, keep up the good work.

[@airailimages]

Thank you for watching and commenting... more archival material to come.

[@kennysherrill6542]

Very cool.👍👍👍👍👍❤🇺🇸

[@airailimages]

Thanks, as always, for watching.

[@neilrobinson3085]

I'm curious why the PBM in the opening credits doesn't show any wing floats like the later images do?

[@airailimages]

Probably an early PBM-1 that had floats that retracted into the undersurface of the wing; later models had fixed floats.

[@Kingwoodish]

The morse code was "Fly navy"

[@kennedysingh3916]

During WW2 all 3 types of aircraft were based hear in Jamaica at NAS Little Goat Island and at the US Army air base Vernam Field.

[@joeshmoe9978]

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