VP-10 Miscellaneous
BOOKs:  Title: "Two Turning, Two Burning" by Jim Stark stark3217@aol.com. This is a memoir mixing the deadly seriousness of flying military aircraft with gutsy humor of young aviators laughing in the face of such challenges. Look over the shoulder of a student Navy Pilot as he makes his first aircraft carrier landing. Read about the surreal experience of an imminent plane crash. Learn how an aircrew discovers it is under attack by Russian MiG-21s following the Cuban Crisis. And smile at the humorous incidents experienced by the author during this interesting period of his life. Squadrons Mention: VP-10, VP-11, VP-23, VP-26, and NAS Brunswick, Maine. The book is available either through Amazon.com or my publisher, as shown on the Web site, http://www.jimstarknavy.com (http://www.jimstarknavy.com) but I would be happy to sell it directly at the discounted price of $15.00 postage included. I can be contacted Jim Stark stark3217@aol.com. Contributed by Jim Stark stark3217@aol.com [16JUL2009]
BOOKs:  Title: The Iranian Deception - A dark conspiracy stretches halfway around the world, putting national security at risk as two military men fight for control of the latest technology in global weaponry. Squadrons mentioned: VP-6, VP-10, VP/VPB-11, VP-12, VP-14, VP-30 and VP-101. Captain Edward M. Brittingham has written many ASW related books (fiction and non-fiction). You can find this (and other books) on: http://www.aswpress.com [11NOV2005]
 MOVIE: "09JAN34--PATROL SQUADRON 10 FLIGHT FROM SAN DIEGO TO PEARL HARBOR...Control Number: NWDNM(m)-428-NPC-16039...General Material: Motion picture films...Description Unit: Item...Record Group: 428...Series Designator: NPC...Item Designator: 16039...Title: PATROL SQUADRON 10 FLIGHT FROM SAN DIEGO TO PEARL HARBOR...Date: 01/09/1934...Format: unedited...Scope & Content: 1) CU Commanding officer of flight, LCDR MAGINNIS.2) CU Two enging type hydroplane warming up.3) LS Number one plane takes off.4) A TO G Squadrons six planes in flight over San Diego harbor.5) CU ADM SELLARS in number one plane.6) MS Planes land at San Francisco, several cruisers in BG.7) CU PAN: pilots of flight in a group.8) LS Planes land at San Francisco, several cruisers in9) CU Patrol boat breaks water so that heavily laden plane can take off.10) A ToG Squadron in flight over Golden Gate Bridge.11) LS Flying over city of Honolulu.12) MS Planes land and taxi toward landing.13) CU Crowd of people waiting to receive them.14) CU Commanding officer receiving leis.15) MS Crews posed in front of 10-P-1.16) MS USS Wright AV 1 with heavy seas breaking over bow.17) MS Whaleboats going ashore at Midway Island.18) MS A lot of goony birds.19) CU Small smark caught on line.QUALITY: GOOD TO FAIR...Subject Ref.: MAGINNIS, LCDR; PLANE, hydroplane; PLANE, take off, water; PLANE,in formation; SELLARS, ADM; G. L. Calif. San Francisco; AVIATOR, USN; SQUADRONS, of hydroplanes; BOAT, patrol; BRIDGE, Calif. Golden Gate; G. L. Honolulu, Hawaii; PLANE, land. water; P.L. flowers leis; PLANE 10-P-1; WRIGHT, USS AV1; SHIP, Aux. AV 1; WAVES, break over bow AV; BOATS, whale; G. L. Island, Midway; A.L. goony birds; A.L. shark, caught on line...Geographic Ref.: Calif. San Diego...Use Restrictions: Other. Department of the Navy, Naval Photographic Center...Contact: Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Branch (NWDNM), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001 PHONE: (301) 713-7060 FAX: (301) 713-6904..." NARA ARCHIVAL INFORMATION LOCATOR (NAIL) http://www.archives.gov/index.html
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: Walk Around PBY Catalina : PBY Catalina (VP-10 PBYs parked on beach, etc.) by Joe Sewell (Illustrator), William Scarborough / Paperback / Published 1996
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