BUOY HOOKER'S SOCIETY

credits given below

We should give credit to the PBY Catalina International Association as Dick Klinge and I (Gene Guthrie) created it for that organization and Jim Thompson, the secretary/treasurer who is the titular head of the organization, created the formal certificate and sent some copies of them to me at my request. - Jim was Dick Klinge's co-pilot during Dick's 2nd tour in PBYs in the South Pacific. - Further background: Dick Klinge was Ens. S. O. "Pappy" Cole's co-pilot who picked up Ens George Gay, the only survivor of Torpedo Squadron 8 from the USS Hornet, after the Battle of Midway. - Pappy Cole was my C.O. in VPB-43 in the Aleutians. Pappy retired in Oak Harbor and died of cancer about 10 or so years ago.