In humid, midnight skies, the PBY Catalinas of World War II flew low ... dive and bomb the vessel. One of the combat aircrewman for the 7th Fleet’s Black Cat Squadron VPB-52 was Jim McDougall ...

In humid, midnight skies, the PBY Catalinas of World War II flew low over the waters of the Southwest Pacific. The black-painted Navy planes had one role: to cut the supplies Japanese ships ...