Us Naval Institute Press Black cat raiders of wwii, paperback/richard c. knott

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Thanks to the PBY's daring pilots and their effective tactics, the slow outdated Catalina patrol bombers became the scourge of Japanese shipping in the South Pacific during World War II.

Painted black and hunting at night, the Black Cats, as they were called, are credited with sinking or disabling hundreds of thousands of tons of cargo vessels, troop transports, and warships.

Curiously their exploits were known to few outside the naval aviation community until the publication of this book in .