"AAF markings on a boat" Topic
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| Robert Kennedy | 28 Jan 2014 8:06 p.m. PST |
Does anyone know the circumstances of this marking on this boat and what type is the boat?
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79thPA  | 28 Jan 2014 8:42 p.m. PST |
It is an air force crash rescue boat. Yes, airmen manning boats. Edit to add that it could be a post war photo since, as far as I know, the CRBs were the same, and reconditioned PT boats were being used by the air force at least until the 1950s. |
| Robert Kennedy | 28 Jan 2014 10:01 p.m. PST |
I was captioned that it was in 1944. Robert |
| JimDuncanUK | 29 Jan 2014 4:54 a.m. PST |
One of my uncles joined the Royal Air Force during World War Two, trained at Rosyth Navy Base and spent the war at sea, mostly in air sea rescue. He was in Normandy not long after D-Day and spent several days just fishing bodies out of the water. |
| 79thPA | 29 Jan 2014 6:03 a.m. PST |
Okay. Then it's a WWII crash rescue boat. |
| Jemima Fawr | 29 Jan 2014 6:31 a.m. PST |
There were some USAAF air-sea rescue craft based here in West Wales during the war. As has been mentioned, the RAF made extensive use of air-sea rescue launches and they remained in service until the end of the Cold War. They became redundant once the SAR Wessex helicopter fleet had almost been fully replaced by the much more capable Sea King. Other marine craft used by the RAF were flying boat tenders. Did the USAAF operate flying boats? |
| Robert Kennedy | 29 Jan 2014 2:53 p.m. PST |
Oh. And I forgot. Its in the Pacific. Robert |
| Terry37 | 30 Jan 2014 9:12 a.m. PST |
One key indentification to consider is the marking, it is the star and bar without the red stripe which came into use after the war. Terry |
| ptdockyard | 30 Jan 2014 5:32 p.m. PST |
This is a 63' Miami ASRB. I have seen this marking on Air Corps picket boats as well. This was a marking for Pacific boats from what I have seen. AAF boats in the ETO did not carry stars of any link on the sides but sometimes one on the foredeck like PTs. |
| Robert Kennedy | 30 Jan 2014 8:14 p.m. PST |
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