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	p2vneptune.com: The Martin P4M-1Q Mercator
		At the height of the Cold War, Martin Mercators flew clandestine ferret missions to gather electronic intelligence from China, North Korea, the USSR and Vietnam.
		Contemporary with the Lockheed P2V Neptune, The Mercator was conceived in 1944 as a replacement for the Consolidated PB4Y Privateer, and particularly for the specific role of mine-laying during the attack on, and invasion of Japan.
		The Mercator was a prop-jet warplane from the beginning.
	p2vneptune.com /profile42.shtml (895 words)

	The Glenn L. Martin Maryland Aviation Museum
		In 1944, the old "Patrol" category was revived and applied to purpose-built landplanes that would combine the size and armament of four-engine planes with the economy and range of two-engine ones.
		Fast and heavily armed with nose and tail turrets with 20mm cannons and a 250CE Martin deck turret with twin.50's, Mercators were better suited to bombing and mine-laying missions in hostile airspace than to antisubmarine patrol.
		Serving with a variety of small, secret units, their tail numbers sometimes disguised, Mercators were sent out to monitor radar and radio signals along the coasts of the Soviet Union and its allies.
	www.marylandaviationmuseum.org /history/martin_aircraft/21_p4m.html (531 words)

	The Lockheed P2V Neptune & Martin Mercator
		The Mercator was to be a long-range patrol aircraft whose primary role was envisioned as minelaying, in support of the planned invasion of Japan.
		A commander of a conventional Navy squadron saw a Mercator with the markings of his own unit, demanded to know what was going on, with the crew replying as tactfully as they could that they weren't allowed to tell him.
		A Mercator was bounced by North Korean MiGs on 16 June 1959 in international airspace.
	www.vectorsite.net /avp2v.html (6045 words)

	p2vneptune.com: The Martin P4M-1Q Mercator
		At the height of the Cold War, Martin Mercators flew clandestine ferret missions to gather electronic intelligence from China, North Korea, the USSR and Vietnam.
		Contemporary with the Lockheed P2V Neptune, The Mercator was conceived in 1944 as a replacement for the Consolidated PB4Y Privateer, and particularly for the specific role of mine-laying during the attack on, and invasion of Japan.
		Fast and heavily armed, the Mercators were better suited to bombing and mine-laying missions in hostile airspace than to antisubmarine patrol.
	www.p2vneptune.com /profile42.shtml (895 words)

	VPNAVY - VP-21 History Summary Page - VP Patrol Squadron
		The space in the nacelle occupied by the Mercators jets was that of the main landing gear on the Neptunes.
		I continued to fly as a P4M plane captain, and on 6 April 1953, I flew on the last P4M (BuNo 124368) flight in VP-21.
		Eventually all VP-21'S Mercators were converted to P4M-IQS at Overhaul and Repair, Norfolk, and sent to VQ squadrons.
	www.vpnavy.com /vp21_1948.html (1814 words)

	Aircraft: Martin P4M-1 Mercator
		Rutland, VT In astronuat Scott Carpenter's biography _For Spacious Skies_ there are a few paragraphs on his test flying a P4M with a Yagi experimental antenna.
		Yes,I was a pilot and flew Martin Mercators.
		This was a surprise because I knew the Mercator was a rare aircraft.
	aeroweb.brooklyn.cuny.edu /specs/martin/p4m-1.htm (536 words)

	Martin P4M Mercator
		An unsuccessful contender for the maritime patrol requirement won by the Lockheed Neptune, the Martin P4M-1 Mercator was first used by VP-21 for high-speed minelaying duties.
		Twenty one Mercators were eventually built and all were powered by two P&W Wasp Major radial engines and unusually two Allison turbojets buried in the rear of the radial engine nacelles.
		Between 1950 to 1960 Mercator’s were employed on ‘ferret’ ELINT missions along Chinese borders and far eastern Russian coasts with Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron One (VQ-1).
	www.spyflight.co.uk /merc.htm (329 words)

	The Mercator and ME
		Mercator was the name given to the fourth Navy patrol plane accepted from the Martin Aircraft Company for full time operations with the fleet air arm.
		The P4M Mercator was a rare "bird" because only 21 were produced between 1946 and late 1949.
		The space in the nacelle occupied by the Mercator's jets was that of the main landing gear on the Neptunes.
	www.vp-21.org /history/id107.htm (1329 words)

	P4M Mercator - Definition, explanation
		The Martin P4M Mercator was an unsuccessful contender for a United States Navy requirement for a long-range maritime patrol bomber; the preferred aircraft was the Lockheed P2V Neptune.
		Instead, it saw a limited life as a long-range electronic reconnaissance aircraft.
		Missions were flown from the Philippines (and, later, Japan) by Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron One (VQ-1) along the Chinese borders and along the eastern Russian coasts, and were of a highly secret nature; the aircraft masqueraded as regular P2V Neptunes in radio communications.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/p/p4/p4m_mercator.php (534 words)

	Rumsfeld Presses China on Fate of Pilot
		Adding to the mystery were unconfirmed U.S. intelligence reports, in the months after the plane was shot down, that Deane and perhaps one other may have survived the crash and been taken to a Chinese hospital.
		A March 4, 1957, report by the 6004th Air Intelligence Service Squadron said two survivors of the Mercator attack had been moved in late November to the residence of a Chinese government official.
		It was a time of tension between Washington and Beijing, which suspected U.S. efforts to destroy the communist regime that had seized power in 1949.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/06/AR2006050600488_pf.html (1399 words)

	VPNAVY - VQ-1 Aicraft Summary Page - VP Patrol Squadron
		VQ-1 P4M BUNO: 124364 "...VQ-1 (PR 4) P4M-1Q (BuNo 124364) at NAS Alameda, California, 20 August 1960.
		VQ-1 P4M BUNO: Unknown "...The last VQ-1 (PR 3) P4M-1Q Mercator is retired in ceremonies held at NAF Atsugi, Japan on 23 July 1960.
		P4M BUNO: Unknown "...I found this picture hanging on the wall of my Senior Chiefs office at NAMTRAGRUDET NAS North Island, San Diego, California.
	www.vpnavy.org /vq1_p4m.html (497 words)

	P4M Mercator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		One Mercator was shot down by Chinese fighters in 1956, while another was attacked by two fighters in 1959 but escaped with injury to one crewman.
		PM - P2M - P3M - P4M - P5M - P6M - P7M
		Wapipedia > Index > P > P4 > P4M Mercator
	www.wapipedia.org /wikipedia/mobiletopic.aspx?cur_title=P4M (548 words)

	P4M-1Q Mercator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This was the second P4M incident, following the shootdown of a P4M near Shanghai in 1956.
		The previous day the Mercator flew a routine track over the Sea of Japan from Iwakuni to Misawa, Japan identical in reverse to the track it was to fly on the date of the incident.
		According to the official report, the Mercator departed Misawa at 8:08 a.m.
	www.silent-warriors.com /p4m-1q_mercator.htm (420 words)

	VPNAVY - VQ-1 Aicraft Summary Page - VP Patrol Squadron
		VQ-1 P4M BUNO: 124364 "...VQ-1 (PR 4) P4M-1Q (BuNo 124364) at NAS Alameda, California, 20 August 1960.
		VQ-1 P4M BUNO: Unknown "...The last VQ-1 (PR 3) P4M-1Q Mercator is retired in ceremonies held at NAF Atsugi, Japan on 23 July 1960.
		P4M BUNO: Unknown "...I found this picture hanging on the wall of my Senior Chiefs office at NAMTRAGRUDET NAS North Island, San Diego, California.
	www.vpnavy.com /vq1_p4m.html (497 words)

	The Lockheed P2V Neptune
		Yet another unusual feature of the Mercator was its bombbay, which borrowed from British practice in being wide and shallow, rather than narrow and deep as was the American tradition.
		The P4M-1Q was littered with antennas for ELINT receivers, and the crew was increased to 14, later 16, to operate the ELINT gear.
		A commander of a conventional Navy squadron saw a Mercator with the markings of his own unit, demanded to know what was going on, with the crew replying as tactfully as they could that they couldn't tell him.
	www.faqs.org /docs/air/avp2v.html (4774 words)

	Tailhook Daily Briefing: Flightdeck Friday: P4M Mercator & Cold War Recce
		Diving from an operating altitude of 6500 ft, the Mercator strains for the presumed safety of the deck.
		Originally conceived and fielded in competition with the better known Lockheed P2V Neptune, the Mercator was bought in a relatively small quantity and subsequently modified to the electronic reconnaissance mission or ELINT, with the designation of P4M-1Q.
		Besides the Mercator lost off Shanghai and the other that successfully recovered in Japan, a third Mercator was lost over the Mediterranean when it crashed at sea with the loss of all hands after successfully evading Soviet MiGs over the Ukraine when it ran out of fuel.
	tailhookdaily.typepad.com /tailhook_daily_briefing/2007/04/flightdeck_frid.html (1054 words)

	Martin P4M "Mercator"
		Work started at Martin on the Model 219 P4M-1 "Mercator" patrol plane for the US Navy in 1944, with it's first flight on the 20/10/1946.
		A "Mercator" of VQ-1 from the mid 1950's
		But that was not the end of the story for the "Mercator" with nineteen being ordered in 1947 by the US Navy.
	tanks45.tripod.com /Jets45/Histories/Martin-P4M/Martin-P4M-Mercator.htm (236 words)

	Home of Fleet Air Reconaissance Squadron One - The World Watchers
		When Detachment Able was reorganized into Electronic Countermeasures Squadron One (VQ-1) at Iwakuni, Japan on 1 June 1955, it was the first squadron dedicated to electronic warfare.
		The A-3 Skywarrior, or "Whale" as it came to be known, served the squadron for the next three decades.
		In 1960, not only was VQ-1 moved to Atsugi, Japan and redesignated Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron ONE, but the last Mercator was retired and replaced by the first of many WV-2Q Super Constellations.
	vq-1.ahf.nmci.navy.mil /history.htm (499 words)

	Martin Mercator P4M-1
		The P4M-1 pictured in your website appears to be a retouched photo of XP4M-1 Number 02789 as pictured in Steve Ginter’s very fine book "Naval Fighter’s Number 37, MARTIN P4M-1/-1Q Mercator" on page 13.
		Our unit at Sangley, the unit at Port Lyautey, and VP-21 were the only US Navy units to fly the Martin Mercator.
		Eventually 18 of the 19 production P4M aircraft were converted into the -1Q version and flown by V1 and VQ-2.
	mikekemble.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /mercator.html (1395 words)

	SR.com: Rumsfeld seeks an old friend
		China has acknowledged that its jet fighters attacked the Mercator as it scooped up electronic intelligence on military radars and other sensitive Chinese systems.
		When Shaver, whom Deane met at Cornell, came to visit him in Pensacola, she would stay at the Rumsfeld's house, and she kept in touch over the years.
		In late May 1956, just days after his wedding, Deane headed to Japan with his Mercator squadron.
	www.spokesmanreview.com /tools/story_pf.asp?ID=129698 (1432 words)

	Cold war shoot downs: Part two Air Classics - Find Articles
		On 23 August 1956, a USN Martin P4M Mercator, on patrol in the Taiwan Strait (at the strait's north end) was intercepted by two Chinese Air Force MiG 15s.
		The P4M was carrying a crew of sixteen.
		The MiG-15s intercepted the P4M, approximately 140 miles north of Taiwan, 32 miles from the Chinese coast.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3901/is_200106/ai_n9002388 (827 words)

	P4M Mercator - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Martin P4M Mercator was an unsuccessful contender for a United States Navy requirement for a long-range maritime patrol bomber; the preferred aircraft was the Lockheed P2V Neptune.
		Missions were flown from the Philippines (and, later, Japan) by Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron One (VQ-1) along the Chinese borders and along the eastern Russian coasts, and were of a highly secret nature; the aircraft masqueraded as regular P2V Neptunes in radio communications.
		One Mercator was shot down by Chinese fighters in 1956, while another was attacked by two fighters in 1959 but escaped with injury to one crewman.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/P4M (602 words)

	Rumsfeld asks China's help in mystery \| www.azstarnet.com ®
		The Cold War case has been clouded in mystery and secrecy since the Martin P4M-1Q Mercator in which Deane and 15 other men were flying was shot down over the East China Sea shortly after midnight on Aug. 23, 1956.
		In late May 1956, just days after his wedding, Deane headed to Japan with his Mercator squadron—and his bride.
		Richard Haver, a former senior U.S. intelligence official and Navy officer who looked into the case at Rumsfeld's request in the late 1990s, said the Navy's original investigation concluded that the Mercator's nose dive into the sea was an "unsurvivable water entry."
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/128054 (1190 words)

	Steeljaw Scribe: August 2006
		Opening fire on the P4M the fighters make a series of attacks, striking and seriously wounding the gunner on the second pass.
		Mercator struggle and pray to get the aircraft back to the Japanese airbase at Miho, a top cover of USAF fighters finally overhead to provide escort duties.
		One of the first platforms specifically modified for this mission was the Martin P4M Mercator.
	steeljawscribe.blogspot.com /2006_08_01_archive.html (7784 words)

	Military.com - View Messages
		As the cancer progresses I would eventually need daily transfusions at which point hospice may be the best choice.
		A few years ago when I started working on a book about the P4M Martin Mercator I had planned to visit different parts of the United States to interview those of you who had any contact with the P4M.
		Unfortunately cardiac and cancer problems kept me from doing this in recent years and now I know I will not be completing this as originally planned.
	www.military.com /HomePage/TitleMessages/1,10990,202847\|783175,00.html?strPage= (316 words)

	Amazon.com: mercator: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A detail from Mercator's untitled map of 1585 (Private collection) small, walled town on...
		Mercator: the Man Who Mapped the Planet by Nicholas Crane (Paperback - 1980)
		Gerhard Mercator, Europa und die Welt: Begleitband zur Ausstellung "Verfolgt, geachtet, universal-- Gerhard Mercator, Europa und die Welt" anlasslich des...
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=mercator&index=books&page=1 (554 words)

	Incident in Death Alley - TIME
		Lame and defenseless, the 395-m.p.h., four-engined Mercator (curiously designed, with two turbojets and two piston engines) was a sitting duck.
		Why, correspondents wanted to know, had the Mercator not fired back with its other weapons — two.50-cal. guns in the top turret and two 20-mm.
		And the damaged Mercator was returning from a reconnaissance mission along the North Korean coast when it was fired upon.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,864647-1,00.html (609 words)

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	liamholcombe.com /p4m.html (320 words)

	AII POW-MIA InterNetwork
		The official said the report had yet to be translated, and he declined to discuss it in more detail because U.S. officials had yet to study it.
		As described by the Chinese, the report is consistent with what they have said previously about the matter, namely, that Deane's plane was shot down, and the fate of he and 11 others aboard the Martin P4M-1Q Mercator was not resolved.
		The remains of four crew members were recovered soon after the shootdown -- two by the crew of a U.S. search vessel and two by China.
	www.aiipowmia.com /inter26/in190706chinaanswers.html (945 words)

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