Photos

At Naval Air Station Norfolk, Virginia, circa 1944. The plane in the background (BUNO 32186) is warming up its engines. Two mechanics are checking the elevator of the plane in the left foreground.

Photographed circa 1945-1946.

Close-up view of starboard gun turret, showing the twin-.50 caliber MG mount; also note dorsal turret, bomb bay door details and details of camouflage "feathering".

View of nose turret (motor product-consolidated)-type) as fitted in most early-model "privateers".

View taken circa 1945, showing tail section of this aircraft; possibly at Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands. Note Grumman F6F-5 "Hellcat" in background.

Sailor polishes the plane 's fuselage, below the port waist twin .50 cal. Machine gun turret. Photographed at a Philippine Islands Air Base 1945

In flight with a Mark 9 "Special weapons ordnance device," (nicknamed "BAT") later redesignated ASM-N-2) under each wing. The "BAT" was an anti-shipping, radar-guided glide bomb. Note heavily weathered color scheme.

Consolidated PBY-2 0454 VP-54 54-P-10 first USN plane with radar NAS Norfolk

The prototype XPB2Y-1 in 1938

At NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, 5 September 1944.

At NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, 5 September 1944.

At NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, 18 January 1945.

At Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, 11 July 1944.

At Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, 11 July 1944.

At Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, 11 July 1944.

At Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, 11 July 1944.