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Using new structural techniques as well as practical experience gained by the Navy from its first monoplane patrol boats, the Consolidated PBY Catalina was designed to replace the P3M and P2Y seaplanes. Initial models produced in 1937 were strictly seaplanes limited to water-borne takeoffs and landings with retractable outer wing floats. If repairs were required on shore, beaching gear was floated out and attached to a buoyed aircraft to permit it to be towed up a ramp for necessary maintenance.
In May 1941, a lend-lease PBY flown by a US Navy pilot on duty as an instructor with the RAF is credited with locating the damaged German pocket-battleship Bismarck to be sunk the following day by a British battleship/cruiser force after her steering had been crippled earlier by a Royal Navy Swordfish. It was also a PBY that made the only attack on a Japanese ship during the Pearl Harbor attack when it bombed a midget submarine on the fateful 7th of December, 1941. Later in the war, it again was a PBY that spotted the Japanese invasion and carrier strike forces during the Battle of Midway.
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