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Description
| Manufacturer: | North American | |
| Base model: | PBJ | |
| Designation: | PBJ | |
| Version: | -1J | |
| Nickname: | Mitchell | |
| Designation System: | U.S. Navy / Marines | |
| Designation Period: | 1935-1962 | |
| Basic role: | Patrol Bomber | |
| Modified Mission: | Equivalent to USAAF J | |
Specifications
| Not Yet Available |
Known serial numbers
Examples of this type may be found at
| Museum | City | State |
| Lone Star Flight Museum | Galveston | Texas |
PBJ-1J on display
Lone Star Flight Museum |
Recent comments by our visitors
| Karl Johnson Seattle, WA | Interesting, as this photo show Fuzzy Fotos on the scrap heap, apparently in the Phillipines at the end of the war, with the name still on the nose.
http://imageshack.us/a/img845/4298/5fim.jpg 10/27/2013 @ 15:50 [ref: 68128] |
| Paul Sihvonen-Binder New Salem, MA | Just last week I was lent a collection of photographs formerly owned by Cpl. Frank Kerns of MAG 61. Frank flew a number of photographic missions on 35107 'Fuzzy Fotos Inc.' There are several pictures of that plane on the website I put up for the pictures at the following URL -
http://spike.cs.umass.edu/~pbinder/frankmag61/Frank_Kern.html If anyone has anymore information about this plane or Frank, please contact me. Thank you, Paul 07/07/2008 @ 09:12 [ref: 21785] |
| Garry Romanik Miami Shores, FL | From my Dad's (Nick Romanik) Navaer-4111 Aviators Flight Log Book:
Jacksonville NAS - Apr. 1945 PBJ #35290 PBJ #35263 07/30/2007 @ 16:53 [ref: 17365] |
| Dan Newcomb , CA | I am a member of the CAF Southern California Wing located in Camarillo, CA. As far as we know we have the only remaining PBJ, BuNo 35857 left in the world. The rest are imposters. That includes the one depicted on this web site and the one at the Pensacola Naval Museum. For the full story http://www.orgsites.com/ca/cafsocalphoto/.
Dan Newcomb 12/16/2005 @ 15:40 [ref: 12003] |
| R J Powers , LA | Airplane appears to be a PBJ-1J since the side ("package") guns are in separate mounts. But there is no upper turret, which would be immediately aft of the flight deck windows. Paint is missing one color, the very dark blue of the upper surfaces. Camouflage of the era was three-color: dark blue upper, light blue sides, white below. The nose art is suspect. We applied a name once to our photo recon PBJ-1D 35107, in black tape, "Fuzzy Fotos, Inc.", and the group CO raised hell because we were absolutely prohibited from parroting the Army Air Force's predilection for nose art, names, mottoes, etc. Whether that applied to those independent squadrons not under MAG-61 control, I don't know. Possibly they had nose art, but not on our island. I know; I personally had to remove the lettering from 35107. (I had applied it!) 08/11/2002 @ 19:33 [ref: 5467] |
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