Two shots captured two very different moments in time some 80 years ago this month.
First, I give you the typical image when someone says, “PBY Catalina ‘Somewhere in the Pacific.”
U.S. Navy mechanics checked a Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina patrol bomber before it leaves the airstrip at Majuro Island, Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands, in March 1944. Note the Grumman F6F Hellcat fighters in the background, with many warships anchored beyond. U.S. Navy photo 80-G-401015
Next, follow that up with this:
“A PBY coming in for a landing in the Aleutians, March 1944.”
It was a wild theatre, indeed.