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PV-1 Ventura / 72-081 /
1. PV-1, Bu No 34741, flown by LT Bill Scarborough of VB-144 on glidebombing and low-level attacks against Japanese bases in the Marshall Islands. Squadron operated from Tarawa and Roi-Namur, January to September 1944

2. PV-1 No. 145 Bomber Reconnaissance Sq.,RCAF, Torbay, Newfoundland 1943

3. PV-1,GR V 2263 endured a wheels up landing at RCAF Port Hardy, in British Columbia, on 2 February 1944

4. PV-1 'Black 125-B-6' flown by Lt Tom Kinaszczuk, VB-125, , Argentia, Newfoundland, 27 April 1943

5. PV-1 Bu No 33253 flown by J H Wehman, VMF(N)-531,Russell and Treasury Islands,South Pacific, February 1944

6. PV-1,Bu No48891, VB-135, LT “Butch” Mason, Attu, 1944

7. PV-1 2195 of No 149 Sqn, Prince Rupert, British Columbia, 1943

8. PV-1 “White 34 “of No 1 Bombing Operational Training Unit, Ohakea, New Zealand 1945 No 1 BTU was assigned the task of training crews for all bomber reconnaissance squadron. Based at Ohakea, the unit performed this function until June 1945, when it began training transport crews

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