Recent content by Doug Campbell

Just to clarify the loss of the OS2U Kingfisher: From the document "Participation in Operation Torch" from COMTASK-GROUP 34.1, submitted by USS Massachusetts (BB-59): "One (1) OS2U-3, BuNo 5804, piloted by Ens. Thomas A. Dougherty, A-V(N), USNR, and with Ethridge, Robert C., ARM2c, as passenger...

Possibly BuNo 7099.

Always looking for personal stories, photos of pilots and crew, etc., associated with the Civil Air Patrol during WWII for an upcoming book. I don't need anything already published or on the 'net - just fresh material preferably from relatives of those who served. Especially interested in...

Thanks Andrew. I guess I should be more specific, sorry. I am some 90,000 words into a book I am writing on Friendly Fire Incidents Involving US Submarines in WWII. Of course many of those incidents were from US and RAAF patrol-bombers dropping depth bombs or strafing US subs even though the...

I am looking for stories about friendly fire incidents between aircraft and U.S. submarines during WWII. Thanks!