VP-34 Miscellaneous
BOOKs:  Title: "Pilot Error" by Captain Vadym V. Utgoff, Retired. We recently published the autobiography of Vadym V. Utgoff who was at one time the skipper of VP-34. Vad was one of my friends and colleagues while we were both faculty members in the Aerospace Engineering Department at the United States Naval Academy. Unfortunately, Vad passed on on 18 July 2002. Consequently, his widow, Mimi, his daughter Marina and I, using his text, put together the book. The book contains about 60 images as well as the text. I believe that some of the images have not previously been published. Limited numbers of the book, Pilot Error, are available from NAR Publishing postpaid for $34.95. Thank you, David F. Rogers dfr@nar-associates.com, PhD, ATP, VP R&D NAR Publishing [08JAN2007]
BOOKs: Title: "US Navy PBY Catalina Units of the Atlantic War" by Ragnar J. Ragnarsson. Squadron's Mentioned: VP-31, VP-32, VP-33, VP-34, VP-45, VP-51, VP-52, VP-53, VP-63, VP-71, VP-72, VP-73, VP-83, VP-84, VP-92, VP-94, VP-6 (Coast Guard), VFP-1 and VFP-2]. [08OCT2006]
BOOKs: Title: "PBY: The Catalina Flying Boat" by Creed, Roscoe. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1986. 351 pp. This definitive study, first published in 1985, pulls together in a single volume all of the aircraft's fascinating facts. The author carefully analyzes the PBY's dual use in the war as a plane of mercy and as a bomber, and he chronicles the flying boat's contributions in peacetime. Squadrons mentioned include: VP-2, VP-5, VP-6, VP-7, VP-9, VP-10, VP-11, VP-12, VP-14, VP-21, VP-22, VP-23, VP-24, VP-31, VP-32, VP-33, VP-34, VP-41, VP-42, VP-43, VP-44, VP-45, VP-51, VP-52, VP-54, VP-61, VP-62, VP-63, VP-71, VP-72, VP-73, VP-74, VP-81, VP-83, VP-84, VP-101, VP-102, FAW-3, FAW-4, FAW-5, FAW-7, FAW-9, FAW-15, FAW-16, FAW-17, CPW-1, CPW-2, CPW-3, CPW-4, CPW-5, CPW-7, CPW-8, and CPW-10. [29MAR2001]
BOOKs: Title: "Bless 'em all : the adventures of a Navy "Black Cat" Squadron in World War II" Author: Hayes, Robert W., 1920-. Description: 88 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American. World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Area. United States. Navy. Patrol Bombing Squadron VPB-34 -- History. World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American. United States. Navy -- Biography. Air pilots, Military -- United States -- Biography. LC Call No.: D790 .H388 1986. Dewey No.: 940.54/4973 19. Published: Eden Prairie, MN (7070 Willow Creek Rd., Eden Prairie 55344) : Willow Creek Publishers, c1986. http://lcweb.loc.gov [26DEC97]
BOOKs: Title: Walk Around PBY Catalina : PBY Catalina (PBY-5 Black Cat of VP-34 was shore-based at Samarai, etc.) by Joe Sewell (Illustrator), William Scarborough / Paperback / Published 1996
BOOKs: Title: "Flying Cats: The Catalina Aircraft in World War II" by Andrew Hendrie [Squadrons mentioned include VP-6, VP-11, VP-13, VP-14, VP-22, VP-23, VP-24, VP-33, VP-34, VP-41, VP-42, VP-43, VP-44, VP-51, VP-52, VP-53, VP-62, VP-63, VP-71, VP-72, VP-73, VP-74, VP-83, VP-84, VP-91, VP-92, VP-94, VP-101, VP-102, FAW-4, FAW-5, FAW-7, and FAW-17, etc.]
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