Launching the PBY (00/00/1942): various shots of women at work on PBY flying-boat parts in Vancouver aircraft plant, of PBY assembled and nearly completed, of PBY being launched during appropriate ceremony. Sequence on PBY Catalina flying-boat taxiing, sliding into the water, taking off and flying. More shots on the construction of the flying-boat and cut to LAMS of the Catalina in flight.