Cats on a Hot Wood Deck
pace was at in July 1944. Bound from Pearl Harbor to Naval Air Station Alameda, Calif., the ship carried eight Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina amphibians, 18 Grumman F4F-5 Hellcat fighters and a biplane on its flight deck and another 14 fighters in its hangar deck. All the aircraft were bound for repair depots. made more than a dozen such trans-Pacific aircraft-transport voyages during World War II.
