But they would never even have reached the sky without the tenders that serviced them. "All seaplane bases had tenders to bring crew out to the planes and bring them back in again," said Fred ...

Bill ended up in the Pacific, serving on board the USS Bering Strait. “We were a seaplane tender. Originally we had 2 seaplanes. We would go in ahead of them and set up a base. They would rescue ...