Patrol
              Squadron Two Assn

 

Dedicated to preserving the memories of our VP2 shipmates


The Brotherhood

    "I now know why men who have been to war yearn to reunite.  Not to tell stories or look at old pictures.  Not to laugh or weep.  Comrades gather because they long to be with the men who once acted at their best; men who suffered and sacrificed, who were stripped of their humanity.  I did not pick these men.  They were delivered by fate and the military.  But I know them in a way I know no other men.  I have never given anyone such trust.  They were willing to guard something more precious than my life.  They would have carried my reputation, the memory of me.  It was part of the bargain we all made,  the reason we were so willing to die for one another.  As long as I have memory, I will think of them all, every day.  I am sure that when I leave this world, my last thought will be of my family and my comrades... Such good men."

--Author Unknown--  (submitted by Dino Vlahakis via Vic Gulliver, 17Jan2007)

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  2022 Reunion - see 2022 Newsletter
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06Jan2023 - A new director has arrived, bringing the
management team bact to seven.
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====> Truculent Turtle - 29Jan2016  <====
Some Turtle Links
Perth - preparations and takeoff - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-JoM0rmDfs
From the Old Fliers Group, Western Australia  - http://oldfliersgroup.org.au
Video on the flight of the Turtle - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LoxY-hqJXY
Turtle Images at Garbutt Airfield enroute to Perth
(taken by RAAF Flight Sergeant Ivor W Fisher, Courtesy of  his  grandson, Les Miller)



New to the Patrol Squadron Two Association

A Big Welcome to
Jun2022-William and Christine Wilbur (63-65)
Sep2022-Richard and Joanie Moses (66-68)
Nov2022-John and Misty Fowler (69)



              Recently Deceased
     Marvin "Marv" L Sommer, (54-57), Aug2021
     George B Jenista, (56-59), Dec2021
     Floyd Palmer, (61-64), Dec2021
     Robert A Folk, (64-66), Dec2021
     Lynda Porterfield, spouse of Gary Porterfield, (63-66), Feb2022
     Barbara Guter, spouse of Dick Guter, (61-63), Mar2022
     Chuck Peterson, (61-64), Mar2022
     Mike O'Gara, (57-59), Mar2022
     David Crouse, 57-61, Apr2022
     Arley Hamilton, 56-59, May2022
     Thompson Tate, 54-57, June2022
     Pete Runette, 58-60, Aug2022?
     Bruce Campbell, ?, Dec2022
     Jerry Russell, 61-65, Jan2023
     Russell L Walsh, 62-65, Mar2023






==> May God Bless America and all those serving to defend our freedom. <==

VP-2 Squadronmates are encouraged to register with and to join the Association.

(click on the image for a larger version)
The Whidbey Patrol Squadron Memorial; Oak Harbor, WA
Sponsored by the Patrol Squadron Two Assn; Dedicated in Sep2006


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Patrol Squadron Two:  At first, in the 1930s, there was the PM-2, and then, with a second beginning in 1943 (VPB-130) there was the Ventura, then the Harpoon, and then the Neptune!

The Truculent Turtle was one of the first Neptunes, setting the 1946 non refueled non-stop distance record on a flight from Perth, Australia to Columbus, Ohio that persisted for years.




The 2010 gathering of Patrol Squadron Two Association veterans decided to take on the task of sponsoring the Truculent Turtle; now perched in the new hangar at the National Naval Aviation Museum; Sherman Field, Pensacola, Florida.  A painting of the Truculent Turtle in flight by Robert Fiacco has been donated to the Turtle endowment.  It is posted below the sponsors listing on the endowment page.  More on the Turtle here.







The Post Neptune Era






PV-1 Ventura
PV-2 Harpoon
PV-3 Ventura II (recycled from UK)

P2V-1_SB2  Miramar
Art Hoffman, 1948    
P2V-2_SB2  Miramar
Art Hoffman, 1948

P2V-3_SB8_Ice_Patrol
Baldur Sveinsson Collection
P2V-4_SB2_BuNo_124245
Okinawa


P2V-5

P2V-5F

Silver P2V-7
P2V-7

P2V-7s

Maintained by Doug Donohue  PO Box 2894  Gardnerville  NV  89410  nvsoar@charter.net
  Contributions and constructive comments are welcome.