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<br /> BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC | 2021 | Volume48 | Number3<br /> PBY PATROLLING<br /> CATALINA THE SEAS<br /> EDITORS<br /> Leah Block, Editor<br /> Gilbert Martinez, Jr., Assistant Editor<br /> CORRESPONDENTS<br /> Hank Coates Tom Gordy<br /> David Legg Randy Wilson<br /> Barry Schiff<br /> ART<br /> Farrah Underwood, Designer<br /> PRINTER<br /> Knight Abbey<br /> COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE STAFF<br /> Hank Coates, President hcoates@cafhq.org<br /> David Oliver, Chief Operating Officer doliver@cafhq.org<br /> Donna Blalack, Director of Administration & HR dblalack@cafhq.org<br /> Lance Linguist, CFO - Secretary/Treasurer llinguist@cafhq.org<br /> Bob Ehret, Controller behret@cafhq.org<br /> April Robinson, Unit Finance Coordinator arobinson@cafhq.org<br /> Melissa Herrington, Accounts Payable Analyst mherrington@cafhq.org<br /> Jim Lasche, Chief Aviation Officer jlasche@cafhq.org<br /> Buddy Cooksey,<a title="Digital Dispatch, March 2021 page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ad2baf6f?page=1"> BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC | 2021 | Volume48 | Nu</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, March 2021 page 2" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ad2baf6f?page=2"> EDITORS Leah Block, Editor Gilbert Martinez, Jr.,</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, March 2021 page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ad2baf6f?page=3"> An Allied convoy moves eastward across Atlantic O</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, March 2021 page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ad2baf6f?page=4"> FLIGHTLEAD Henry “Hank</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, March 2021 page 5" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ad2baf6f?page=5"> OFFICIAL MERCHANDISE OF THE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FOR</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, March 2021 page 6" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ad2baf6f?page=6"> FEATURE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC by Tom Gordy </a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, March 2021 page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ad2baf6f?page=7"> WHAT LED UP TO THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC Many o</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, March 2021 page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ad2baf6f?page=8"> THE BEGINNING (1939-1940) Hours after receiving </a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, March 2021 page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ad2baf6f?page=9"> At this point in the battle, convoys were still v</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, March 2021 page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ad2baf6f?page=10"> THE BACHSTELZE Left Photo: An Fa</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, March 2021 page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ad2baf6f?page=11"> THE TALLY (1943-1945) In 1943, advantage shifte</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, March 2021 page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ad2baf6f?page=12"> BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC Statistics vary greatly. S</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, March 2021 page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ad2baf6f?page=13"> 1939-1945The longest military campaign of World W</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, March 2021 page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ad2baf6f?page=14"> FEATURE THE CONSOLIDATED PBY-5A CA</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, March 2021 page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ad2baf6f?page=15"> This PBY Catalina belongs to the Military Aviatio</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, March 2021 page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ad2baf6f?page=16"> merged with Vultee Aircraft in 1943 to form Conso</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, March 2021 page 17" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ad2baf6f?page=17"> Recent images of the restoration of the CAF’s PBY</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, March 2021 page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ad2baf6f?page=18"> THINGS TO KNOW: 6 THINGS TO KNOW: B Longes</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, March 2021 page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ad2baf6f?page=19"> BBAATTTLLEEOFFTTHEEAATTLLAANTTICIC rces # 4 </a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, March 2021 page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ad2baf6f?page=20"> FEATURE The Patrol Bom</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, March 2021 page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ad2baf6f?page=21"> American sailors and officers turn the burning PB</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, March 2021 page 22" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ad2baf6f?page=22"> A PBY Catalina arrives in Pearl Harbor aboard USS</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, March 2021 page 23" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ad2baf6f?page=23"> GONE WEST As of December 2020 Robert G. Russell .</a> <a title="Digital Dispatch, March 2021 page 24" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/ad2baf6f?page=24"> </a>