Today we're taking a look at the Martin PBM Mariner, an often forgotten flying boat that was primarily operated by the US ...

ON the night of Wednesday, July 19, 1944, at Royal Island, North Eleuthera, Lt (jg) HL Hayes crashed while landing in a turbulent sea. No injuries to the personnel occurred, but both wing floats ...

In 1938, the Navy commissioned the Glenn L. Martin Company to develop an oversized version of their existing PBM Mariner patrol bomber for use defending America’s lengthy coastlines. The result ...

It was here that production of the ungainly flying boat the Martin PBM Mariner (below) went full throttle after the attack on Pearl Harbor. I spent over a thousand hours in Mariners and made a few ...

The divers did not set out to find spacecraft debris, but rather were looking for the wreck of a Martin PBM Mariner flying boat that also went missing on Dec. 5, 1945. The Mariner and its 13 ...

He was 19 years old, tall and dark-haired, and already a World War II veteran with 1,500 hours in Martin PBM Mariner seaplanes. During the war he had patrolled the Atlantic Ocean, from the ...

“We had magnetic subsurface detection gear to track them under the water.” Detwiler with the first naval plane he served aboard – a PBM Mariner. June 25th marked the 71st anniversary of the Korean War ...

On September 20, 1943, a Martin PBM-3S Mariner suffered a water-loop while landing, spinning out of contol in proximity to USS Christiana in Pelican Bay. The large amphibian plane was struck from ...