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25-06-13, 06:58

motto

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Flying boats / amphibians. Two different critters.

Unless I'm mistaken, most if not all PBYs operated by the RAAF were of the flying boat variety and had no landing gear.
This meant that they didn't operate from airfields as such but seaplane bases and sheltered waterways.

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