{"id":4601,"date":"2026-01-04T00:35:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T00:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/griffin-w-e-b-men-at-war-02-secret-warrior-griffin-w-e-b\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T00:35:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T00:35:28","slug":"griffin-w-e-b-men-at-war-02-secret-warrior-griffin-w-e-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/griffin-w-e-b-men-at-war-02-secret-warrior-griffin-w-e-b\/","title":{"rendered":"Griffin, W.E.B. – Men At War 02 – Secret Warrior – Griffin, W. E. B."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alameda Naval Air Station Alameda, California April 4, 1942 <\/p>\n

Although there were four passengers aboard the U.S. Navy PBY-5 from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, most of the plane’s cargo weight was mailbags regular mail from the fleet, official mail from various Army and Navy headquarters all over the Pacific, some from even as far away as Australia. The Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina flying boat had been designed not as a transport but as a long-range reconnaissance aircraft. It had two 1,200-lip Twin Wasp radial engines mounted on its high wing. Two struts on each side reinforced the wing, the interior of which contained huge fuel tanks. What every Catalina pilot dreaded was landing shortly after takeoff, when the fuel tanks were full-and thus heavy. If the plane could not be greased in, all that weight was likely to tear the wings off. There was little danger of that now. <\/p>\n

The fuel tanks were indicating close to empty. A head wind had been with them all the way across the Pacific from Hawaii. The pilot had even worried for a few rough minutes that he would not have enough fuel to make it to Alameda. <\/p>\n

A few hundred miles from the coast, the navigator had wordlessly laid his calculation on the pilot’s lap. His projection was that they would run out of fuel an hour and fifteen minutes short of Alameda. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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