Comments by "AtomicBabel" (@AtomicBabel) on "The Drydock - Episode 115" video.

The PBY is an amazing aircraft performing many duties including search and rescue. Often in that role, they were able to fly home overloaded with the adrifted. The PBY that landed amongst the Indianapolis survivors literally became a large lifeboat, and as such many men were rescued from the perilous ocean. The men and the crew of the PBY were then transferred to a rescue ship for transit to safe harbor. The plane was so damaged that it could not fly and was scuttled. The context is that that PBY was a critical step in the rescue of those men, it was not an end to end implement.
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