There were normally 32 Consolidated PBY-5/PBY-5A Catalina flying boats at Midway. On the morning of 3 June, a VP-44 PBY sighted Rear Adm. Razio Tanaka’s Transport Group. On the early morning of 4 June, four PBYs of VP-51 and VP-24, led by the XO o
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