THE BLACK CATS

Duration: 18min

Year Published: 1944

Creator: US Navy indus incentive div

Format: 16mm

Sound: Sound

Description: The Navy's giant long range flying boats, PBY's, popularly known as "Black cats" or "cats," play the lead in this authentic film combat report from the South Pacific. The combat accompanies a group of Black Cats on an exciting operational flight against a Jap convoy. A particularly weather and the constant peril of interception by Jap night fighters, the Cats locate and attack the convoy, hitting three Nip ships in their fierce assault

Complete Record: Dewey number: 940.544 Audience level: jh-sh-c-trade-adult Format/cost: 16-sd-loan Distributors / rental: Photoart House $1; University of South Carolina $1

Metadata Source:Educational Film Guide 1946