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Huge Gap in VP-22 History3
- Spring 2012
- April 26, 2012
Kenneth D. Landriau, Ltjg, USNR – Retired I thoroughly enjoyed the “Official Record” VP-42, (M/MA Vol. 30, Issue 4) but I was surprised that the story left a huge gap of over ten years, from June 1952 until April 1963. I can fill in part of this gap, because I joined the squadron in March
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The Last Mariner Deployment0
- Winter 2011
- April 26, 2012
By Bill Laux (then LTJG, USN) Patrol Squadron FIFTY (VP-50), under CDR C. J. “Dino” Economou, was scheduled to begin the last PBM-5S2 deployment from NAS Alameda, CA, to NAS Iwakuni, Japan, on 2 January 1956, to relieve VP-48, which was also deployed from Alameda, and which operated the newer P5M-1 flying boat. The practice
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History of the Mariners and Marlin in the U.S. Coast Guard2
- Winter 2011
- April 26, 2012
Official History USCG (uscg.mil) Martin PBM-3/5 Mariner The Coast Guard acquired 27 Martin PBM-3 during the first half of 1943. In late 1944, the service acquired 41 PBM-5 models and more were delivered in the latter half of 1945. Ten were still in service in 1955 although all were gone from the inventory by 1956.
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It’s wearisome, but Air Patrols Vital To Interdict Foe’s Seaborne Supplies2
- Fall 2011
- April 25, 2012
By Don Dedera, Arizona Republic, April 4, 1966 ABOVE THE GULF OF SIAM— To port broods a snappish tropical squall, and to starboard loom the opaque peaks of Phu Quoc Island. Between the two ominous shapes, the little Martin P5M seaplane pursues a hairline radar course, across a chart tangled with disputed international boundaries. For
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