The very versatile J2F Duck was used first and foremost as an air-sea rescue aircraft. In the world of Mother Nature, the feathery ducks aren’t very intimidating animals. That notwithstanding, several ...

On Nov. 29, 1942, Lt. John Pritchard and Radio-Man First Class Benjamin Bottoms were flying a Grumman J2F Duck, a single-engine amphibious biplane, to rescue the crew of an Army Air Corps C-17 that ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: It may not have walked like a duck or quacked like duck—with respect to James Whitcomb Riley—but one Grumman aircraft did sort of fly and was able to land on water, ...

Then-Lt. Cmdr. Robert Tucker, from the Coast Guard's office of aviation forces, provides an operation status and position report to the Atlantic Area Command Center about the J2F-4 Grumman Duck ...

NEW YORK – The Defense Department's Joint POW/MIA Personnel Accounting Command said an exhaustive search by an expedition team of U.S. Coast Guard servicemembers and North South Polar, Inc. Scientists ...

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A total of 584 airframes were built. Foreign purchasers of the Duck included Argentine Naval Aviation, the Mexican Navy, the Colombian Navy, and the Peruvian Navy. “Though slightly odd in appearance, ...