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It's not a PBY Catalina, it appears to be a PBM from Martin. I'll see if I can dig up more info on this one.
"...My Great Uncle, Will Mitchell Haire, served on the VP-207 and was killed when his plane crashed 20 AUG 44. I would like to know if anyone has any further information on him than what's on this site. I would also love to have any pictures of him that anyone would have. "GOD BLESS YOU ALL."...Robert Hooks rhooks@sw.rr.com..." [19JUL2005]
"...In 1944, Will Mitchell Haire was at the US Naval Operating Base. His plane, a USN Martin PNB Mariner 6717, one of the nine aircraft of VP-207 crashed 25 miles north of Bermuda on 20 August 1944. All eight crew members were missing, presumed killed. The squadron had been in Bermuda for only three months, since June. It had replaced VP-201 which had served in Bermuda from September 1943 to June 1944. The rest of Haire's squadron remained in Bermuda until June 1945..." American Military Bases in Bermuda from 1941 to 1995 [02JUL2003]
"...My great uncle Mitchell Haire was part of VP-207. He was a Seaman 1st class and from what I can gather his last duty station was NAS Coco Solo, Panama, Canal Zone. He was killed Aug 20, 1944 25 miles north of Bermuda. If anyone has any information it would be great to here from you...William M. Hooks highperformance@earthlink.net..." [24JAN2002]
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If it's the one, it sounds like you could make a number of people happy with sending them a copy of this pic.
Wow, that is impressive!
Where did you find this information above?
I e-mailed both e-mail addresses, but I'm afraid they were returned. Looking at the dates of those posts I was worried the e-mail addresses may not be valid anymore, and I was correct.
However, I did a quick search and came up with this bit of information about the man looking for more information about his great uncle. It's not much, but it gives me a full name.
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Hopefully he is still searching for more information, and will come across this thread one day.
Thanks, I enjoy this kind of stuff. The exact link to the page I got the info from is on the first line of my post.