VP-54 Miscellaneous
BOOKs: Title: "PBY: The Catalina Flying Boat" by Creed, Roscoe. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1986. 351 pp. This definitive study, first published in 1985, pulls together in a single volume all of the aircraft's fascinating facts. The author carefully analyzes the PBY's dual use in the war as a plane of mercy and as a bomber, and he chronicles the flying boat's contributions in peacetime. Squadrons mentioned include: VP-2, VP-5, VP-6, VP-7, VP-9, VP-10, VP-11, VP-12, VP-14, VP-21, VP-22, VP-23, VP-24, VP-31, VP-32, VP-33, VP-34, VP-41, VP-42, VP-43, VP-44, VP-45, VP-51, VP-52, VP-54, VP-61, VP-62, VP-63, VP-71, VP-72, VP-73, VP-74, VP-81, VP-83, VP-84, VP-101, VP-102, FAW-3, FAW-4, FAW-5, FAW-7, FAW-9, FAW-15, FAW-16, FAW-17, CPW-1, CPW-2, CPW-3, CPW-4, CPW-5, CPW-7, CPW-8, and CPW-10. [29MAR2001]
BOOKs: Title: "Black Cat Raiders of World War II" ISBN 0-933852-18-5...Capt. Richard C. Knott USN (1981)...198 Pages...The Nautical & Aviation Publishing Company of America http://www.sonic.net/~bstone/nautical/ - 8 West Madison Street - Baltimore, MD 21201 - Phone: (410) 659-0220 |||||||||| fax: (410) 539-8832 - e-mail: lkeddie@aol.com, or 73244@compuserve.com, or ssjb86a@prodigy.com and also Lodowick Adams, Bookseller-2021 8th Street-Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35401-(205) 345-9654 or e-mail L.AdamsBK@internetMCI.com "There is a chapter devoted to VP-54..." Contributed by Elliot Schreider elshirl@peoplepc.com [28DEC97]
BOOKs: Title: "Air War Pacific Chronology: America's Air War Against Japan in East Asia and the Pacific, 1941-1945: Chronology" (Mentions VP-23, VP-54, VP-71, VP-72, VP-101, VD-1, VD-3, etc.) [13FEB99]
 SIMULATORs: Description: FS2000/CFS2 Consolidated PBY-5A VP-54, "Black Cats" (PBY5a2k.zip) Download: vp54_pby_01_31oct2001.zip WebSite: Simulation http://www.simviation.com/ [31OCT2001]
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