PBY Catalina

Background
The Consolidated PBY Catalina was an American maritime flying boat used during World War II. It could be equipped with depth charges, bombs, torpedoes and M2 Browning machine guns. It was one of the most widely used multi-role aircraft of World War II. Its roles included search and rescue operations, special forces raids, anti-shipping operations, supply transport, medical evac, mail delivery, and sub hunting. The British, Canadian and New Zealand air forces and navies also found the PBY to be exceptionally useful.

In Call of Duty: World At War, the player is aboard a PBY-5A equipped as a Black Cat, in the suitably named level, Black Cats. This specialized version of the PBY had retractable tricycle landing gear for amphibious operation, as well as a tail gun position, replaced the normal bow single gun position with bow "eyeball" turret equipped with twin .30 machine guns (some later units), improved armor, and self-sealing fuel tanks.