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CGAA36104 PBY-5 Catalina - 'Black Cat', VP-34, LT. Pfleeger - Air Fleet Wing 17, New Guinea 1944 Corgi Classics / Aircraft Availability: Sold Out Size: 1:72 Scale (Wingspan: 440mm) Age: 14 years and up Release: December 2006 Type: Static Model Manufacturer's Code: AA36104 Product Code: CGAA36104

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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.

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