it has no floats, how the fug can it?
And it sure aint no flying boat.
You thinking of PBY Catalina flying boat?
The Privateer is a variant of the B-24, redesigned for the Navy to have better performance at low altitudes. A seven-foot extension was added to the forward fuselage to accommodate a flight engineer’s station. The engines were changed to the non-supercharged 1,350- hp Pratt & Whitney R-1830-94. The twin-tail was changed to a single tail fin and rudder. The armament was also beefed up. Most PB4Y-2s carried two Martin A-3 power turrets mounted on the dorsal spine, one immediately behind the cockpit and one immediately ahead of the vertical tail. The nose had the ERCO 250 SH ball turret and the tail carried a standard Consolidated A-6B turret. The flexible waist machine guns were replaced with ERCO 250 teardrop-shaped waist blisters. Each blister contained an internal powered ball turret which allowed both fore and aft traverse as well as up and down movement. Each blister carried a pair of .50 caliber machine guns. Given the protection provided by these blisters, the belly ball turret was eliminated.
The Privateer entered Navy service during the late summer of 1944. The aircraft was used exclusively in the Pacific theatre (WWII), where it was used primarily for patrol missions in support of amphibious operations during the latter stages of the war. No other Navy aircraft had the Privateer’s range and versatility.
