What does PB stand for?

Among them were: Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter Douglas A-26/B-2G Invader attack bomber Vought F4U Corsair fighter Lockheed PV-I/PV-2 Ventura patrol bomber Northrop P-GI Black Widow night fighter Martin PBM-5 Mariner flying boat patrol bomber Martin B-26 Marauder medium bomber Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter Grumman F7F Tigercat twin-engine fighter Grumman F8F Bearcat fighter Fairchild C-123 Provider transport Fairchild C-82 Packet transport Curtiss C-46 Commando transport Douglas DC-6 airliner Convair 240/340/440 airliner Martin 202/404 airliner North American AJ-1/AJ-2 Savage attack bomber Sikorsky S-5G cargo helicopter Howard 500 executive twin Canadair CL-215 firebomber Frequent contributor Stephan Wilkinson is a former executive editor of Flying magazine.

Later in the war, when I was flying heavy patrol bombers as air cover for our North Pacific fleet, the importance of cockpit communication became most clear.

63934 patrol bomber (a B-24 Liberator), found only 4 miles from his home.

Another thing Spicher and Thomson had in common was World War II Navy PBY patrol bombers.

The Ventura, a PV-1 patrol bomber, was loaded with ordnance and accompanied by four other bombers on the so-called Empire Express bombing route, from Alaska to the northern tip of Japan.

Sent into receivership by the Great Depression, then purchased and revived by a partnership headed by an aviation enthusiast and investment broker, Lockheed put out new, smaller airliners, the Electra and Super Electra, then pushed its employment to 17,000 in 1940 with a contract to build Hudson patrol bombers for Great Britain.

The plane was turned over to the Royal Air Force and served in the Pacific until the end of the war, when it was abandoned in India and served as a patrol bomber there, said Phil Haskell, a flight engineer.

Newsome first had been told to remove the turret guns from the PB4Y-1 patrol bomber, which was waiting in a secluded hangar with around-the-clock Navy sentries.