Corgi AA36104.(C) Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina United States Navy White 69 Named Black Cat Lt Pfleeger, VP-34, new Guinea, 1944

Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina United States Navy White 69 Named Black Cat Lt Pfleeger, VP-34, new Guinea, 1944
Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina United States Navy White 69 Named Black Cat Lt Pfleeger, VP-34, new Guinea, 1944
Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina United States Navy White 69 Named Black Cat Lt Pfleeger, VP-34, new Guinea, 1944
Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina United States Navy White 69 Named Black Cat Lt Pfleeger, VP-34, new Guinea, 1944
Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina United States Navy White 69 Named Black Cat Lt Pfleeger, VP-34, new Guinea, 1944
Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina United States Navy White 69 Named Black Cat Lt Pfleeger, VP-34, new Guinea, 1944
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Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina United States Navy White 69 Named Black Cat Lt Pfleeger, VP-34, new Guinea, 1944



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VP-34 was one of ten Navy patrol squadrons to be designated Black Cats during the war. The nickname came from the flat black paint applied to the Catalinas and the nighttime strike missions assigned to these squadrons. On 26 December 1943, VPB-34 (the VPB designation was not formally approved until the following October) flew to their new operating base at Samarai on the eastern tip of New Guinea. This aircraft was flown by Lt. Pfleeger in 1944 for a rescue of three survivors of a B-24 that had ditched after a raid on Truk - the Japanese "Gibraltar of the Pacific", the seemingly impregnable base for its combined and Fourth Fleets.