I knew George pretty well via Fighter Aces, Tailhook and Golden Eagles. Always fun to speak with him. When The Hunt for Red October came out, I asked if he'd seen it. George grinned, "Seen it? I'm in it!" (I knew that, which is why I asked.) I said "George, you've been in so many movies that you could join the screen actor's guild." His Midway ramp strike also was in Midway (!!) and a couple others.
Anyway: he never mentioned flying PBYs. But he did say that after a Rufe ventilated his SOC in the Aleutians, he visited his detailer and said "I'm a fighter pilot, dammit!" And obviously he became a really good one. He retired as a captain and went to law school.