Subject: Re: Pictures to The de ARC´s
From: "Steve Bamford ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "Marcius" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 13:23:58 -0800

Hi Marcius,
Thanks for sending in your Catalina article.  I'm catching up on a backlog of e-mails....sorry for the slow response.  I'll e-mail you when your article goes on ARC.

Steve Bamford
Aircraft Resource Center
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Marcius 
  To: [email-masked] 
  Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 2:04 PM
  Subject: Pictures to The de ARC´s

  Steve,
  More pictures to the ARC´s
  PBY5-A CATALINA 
  AIRFX 1/72 
  Catalina in service in the FAB
  In 1943, they chegavem to Brazil first the Catalina to be you deliver to the BAF, inside of the agreement "Lend-Lease". They were 7 units of version PBY-5, which had been based on Florianópolis (one), Belém (three) and Galeão (three). In day 31 of July of this year, 
  Others 15 PBY-5A had been deliver in 1944, which initially had been based on Galeão. Still in this year, Group of Patrol was created 1º, with headquarters in Belém, and 2º Group of Patrol, headquartered in Galeão, both equipped with the Catalina. With the end of the war, PBY-5 and PBY-5A had passed to be called in the FAB, respectively, as P-10 and PA-10BY-5 ' 2 ', hosted in Galeão, sank the German submarine U-199.

  Best Regards

  Marcius Cesar Costa