U.S. NAVY WWII ERA PBM-3 MARINER SEAPLANE BASE KANEOHE BAY HAWAII HOME MOVIE 60334
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- This silent 16mm home movie dates from just after the WWII era and was shot by a member of the U.S. military. Starting at :51 you will see operations at a U.S. Navy seaplane base. We're not sure where this was located but probably Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. Some of the PBM-3 Mariner aircraft shown are marked "SF" on the tail, possibly standing for "San Francisco"? At 3:30 the PBM-3 takes off across the bay. At 6:25 the unit is reviewed by the commanding officer who appears to be a one-star Admiral. The film ends at 9:51 with an interesting sequence, as an old woman begs for coins amid U.S. sailors.
The Martin PBM Mariner was an American patrol bomber flying boat of World War II and the early Cold War period. It was designed to complement the Consolidated PBY Catalina in service. A total of 1,366 were built, with the first example flying on 18 February 1939 and the type entering service in September 1940. The first PBM-1s entered service with Patrol Squadron Fifty-Five (VP-55) of the United States Navy on 1 September 1940.[3] Prior to the USA's entry into World War II, PBMs were used (together with PBYs) to carry out Neutrality Patrols in the Atlantic, including operations from Iceland. Following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, PBMs were used on anti-submarine patrols, sinking their first German U-boat, U-158 on 30 June 1942. PBMs were responsible, wholly or in part, for sinking a total of ten U-boats during World War II. PBMs were also heavily used in the Pacific War, operating from bases at Saipan, Okinawa, Iwo Jima and the South West Pacific.
The United States Coast Guard acquired 27 Martin PBM-3 aircraft during the first half of 1943. In late 1944, the service acquired 41 PBM-5 models and more were delivered in the latter half of 1945. Ten were still in service in 1955, although all were gone from the active Coast Guard inventory by 1958 (when the last example was released from CGAS San Diego and returned to the U.S. Navy). These flying boats became the backbone of the long-range aerial search and rescue efforts of the Coast Guard in the early post-war years until supplanted by the P5M Marlin and the HU-16 Albatross in the mid-1950s. PBMs continued in service with the U.S. Navy following the end of World War II, flying long patrol missions during the Korean War.[8] It continued in front line use until replaced by its successor, the P5M Marlin, with the last USN squadron equipped with the PBM, Patrol Squadron Fifty (VP-50), retiring them in July 1956.
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Always wanted to fly a seaplane but the last were taken out of service when I started flight training in Pensacola in 1967. Later on, flying out of North Island, you could see a bunch of their hulls on the field, beached with nose cones and radars missing and minus engines all waiting to be scrapped. What a sad sight. I had former seaplane instructors in Advanced in Corpus Christi. The word passes around us students to watch them as they were prone to forget landing gear on approaches. No gear in those old birds. The instructor that I flew with to the Lex for Carquals did just that and I had to remind him. Rather than being upset he thanked me sincerely, a real gentleman. Charles Mayfield. Good times.
The first clip was Hanauma Bay, then Bellows Beach, then Makapuu lighthouse. The first PBM started his water take off near Coconut Island in Kanehoe Bay. Later in the film, Kansas Hill and Ulupau Crater were seen in the back ground. Definitely K-Bay. I do not know the location of that cemetery but certainly on base.
Interesting stuff. As an AEAN (Naval Aircraft Elect Airman) fresh out of A school, Jax, Fla, and while attending C school NAS North Island, CA, Jan '66, was assigned to a P5 squadron (I don't remember which) for duties when not in class and learning about the P5, it's searchlight, mine laying capabilities, etc. Also scraped the bilges of a P5 at one point, go figure. All this while the old bird was soon to be decommissioned. Was then assigned to VP-2, with the P2-V Neptunes, in Iwakuni, JPN, in '66, and later still, with VAH-4, NAS Whidbey Is, flying the A-3D refuelers (for tailhook duty). While at Whidbey, on a Saturday morning touring the area, watched as USS Salisbury Sound (seaplane tender) depart Oak Harbor, WA, in fall of '67, departing (forever) that now closed seaplane base as it sailed off into Naval history, right along with those incredible Martin P5s.
Tail code SF was instituted in September 1950 for VP-731 (later redesigned VP-48). I don’t recall seeing an admiral. The inspecting officer was a captain (four stripes in his shoulder boards).
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The presence of red bars in the aircraft insignia indicates the film was shot sometime after January 1947.
Is it possible to know or find out the date that this clip of the Mariner was taken?
. My father looked suspiciously like the patrol plane commander w/ headphones on & looking @ the camera. He was in Kaneohe Bay for a time and I have his logbook to verify if he was the movie star here.I looked for a tail number but didn't see one.
Almost impossible to find out --
Would be very cool if it was your Dad though and not the first time someone has spotted a relative in one of our films.
@@PeriscopeFilm thanks so much for the follow up. While Dad never spoke much of his P-Boat experiences, they were nevertheless exciting and a big part of what he became. Still have reams of b&w photos of that time.
@@marthavaughan4660 Hi Martha, George was referring to me when he said, "not the first time someone has spotted a relative ...". My father LTJG Wayne E. Bancroft enlisted in the Navy on October 18, 1943.
He flew a Navy Martin PBM-5S Bomber and belonged to Patrol Squadron VP-47. On December 26, they were given orders to fly a night mission over the Sea of Japan. Both engines failed and the plane crashed. There was a crew of 13 and only 3 survivors. My father did not.. I never met my father as he died December of 52 and I was born April of 53. George made a video on this topic: ruclips.net/video/6bWShhtM7UA/видео.html
Wayne