Patrick Stephens Cambridge 1981. Hard cover dust wrapper 198pp b&w photos, drawings and maps. Price clipped dw is foxed on reverse. A little wear on board edges and some foxing. Ownership details on fly. Some small patches of surface lifted and remains of tape on pastedowns else good-very good. . The story of the long-range patrol bomber, the PBY Catalina, which flew reconnaisance, patrol, rescue, transport and attack missions during WWII. PBY squadrons accounted for the sinking or disabling of hundreds of thousands of Japanese cargo vessels, troop transports and warships.