Describes how the U.S. Navy's VPB-23 PBY Blackcat Squadron played a key role in the South Pacific theater of World War II, carrying out bombing raids, supply missions, reconaissance, and air-sea rescue missions, despite their obsolete equipment. Reprint.

Product Description: The "Black Cats of the Navy" flew Hell's perimeters. Silhouetted against billowing white clouds and brightest blue skies, they soared in and out of some of the bloodiest and most costly battles in the Pacific. Here, for the first time, the PBY Catalina pilots and air crewmen of U...read more

Sally and her friend Sam imagine what they could do if Sally had various animals as pets, from riding a rhino while on safari to rounding up seahorses while deep-sea diving.