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).
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.
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.
@@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
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).
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.
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
The presence of red bars in the aircraft insignia indicates the film was shot sometime after January 1947.
Um dos mais belos aviões de patrulha marítima