looking for RAF Catilina Defensive armament references

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I am looking for any reference on the defensive machine guns on RAF coastal command PBY Catalinas as to what types and any photos of the type of gun used I’m converting a academy PBY-5 to a british Catalina the guns included are browning machine guns but i believe the british used a Drum fed Lewis type gun

Any and all help is appreciated

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PanzerWulff;

Here are a few links I found for you. You may have to search CANSO as well to find aircraft used by the RAF and RCAF. One link that may be of use for a unique is this one http://www.nt.net/~toby/ceylon.html it is the brief listing of a great story.

Additionally try these

http://www.slmannion.com/articles/PBY-5A.htm

http://www.rcaf.com/aircraft/patrol/canso/index.php?name=Canso

One of these links describes the armament Vickers Machine Gun here are links for that too.

http://www.vickersmachinegun.org.uk/kgun.htm

http://www.rt66.com/~korteng/SmallArms/Vickers.htm

Cheers;

Gregory

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I will see if I can find my reference, but I vaguely remember reading that the Lend-Lease PBYs were not re-gunned and always flew with their standard mix of .30- and .50-caliber Brownings. If I can find it I will scan and send you a copy.