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Jack Cook
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Na it's just Lake Worth full of PBYs.
Courtesy of WIX Superhero Gary Austin 8)
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What a lovely sight. :D

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Any idea where and when the photo was taken.
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Found the same photos on another web site with this caption

Envelope reads, "40 Navy PB24's on Lake Worth to Escape Gulf Storm. (Probably from Corpus Christi NAS)."
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Reminds me of when we have the annual "fish fly" invasion around here every summer.

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Those may be the coolest pictures ever!

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Those are great !!

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Steve S wrote:
Any idea where and when the photo was taken.


Lake Worth is on the north edge of Carswell AFB, Fort Worth, Texas.
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I wonder if this is the same year a Hurricane was coming to Corpus and NAS evacuated the land planes to Kelly. There was little damage in Corpus. but a tornado hit Kelly and destroyed a bunch of planes. Don't mess with mother nature.
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Great pictures.....would also love to know when taken. I fly over Lake Worth a bunch and would love to compare present with whenever this was??????
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Looking at the photos has Gary sent them. The PBYs have full
stars and bars so the photos were taken Aug 1943 or later.

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These are AWESOME!!!!
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In the first photo, the boat closest to the bottom has the tail shape of a dash-5. How do you enlarge photos in this context to get a better look?

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Steve S wrote:
Any idea where and when the photo was taken.


Photo was taken at the Catalina breeding grounds during mating season...
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They're on my computer. :P
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