FREDERICKSBURG -- Fifty years after seeing combat in the Mediterranean, PT 309 reached its final port of call Thursday at the National Museum of the Pacific War. "It couldn't be any nicer," said Ollie ...
In the Solomons, American PT boats struggled against shallow-draft Japanese barges that torpedoes could not hit and machine ...
VANCOUVER, Wash. – Over the past dozen years, a group of Vancouver enthusiasts had voiced high hopes for motor torpedo boat 659. A glorious restoration. A waterfront display. A captivating lesson for ...
It could be a wild ride. "It'd bounce around tremendously. When we carried troops or Marines, they got so deathly sick they swore they'd rather die than be on a PT boat," Holasek said. "But we kind of ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CORRECTS BOAT NUMBER TO 305, NOT 105 - Members of the media sit on a gun turret during a media ride Thursday, March 16, 2017, on ...
President John F. Kennedy had numerous brushes with death before an assassin’s bullet ended his life 50 years ago today. Sickly throughout a childhood he wasn’t expected to survive, JFK had to ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Engines growling, its bow high above the water and a rooster-tail of spray rising in its wake, the nation's only fully restored combat veteran PT boat traced the course where it was ...
FLAT ROCK ó Pardon World War II veteran Harlan Nelson if he doesn't join in the excitement over the discovery last week of John F. Kennedy's famed PT-109. Nelson thinks saw he saw the remains of ...
Architect J. Clifford Grout III has spent hundreds of hours volunteering with others on a project that’s dear to his heart: working on the restoration of a historic New Orleans-built wooden PT boat ...
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A moving museum, PT-305 pulls away from its new boat house on the New Orleans lakefront. Patrol Boat 305 is the only PT boat that saw combat duty in World War Two and is again ...
After seven years of craning their necks to see aerial activity at the Bethpage Air Show at Jones Beach, spectators this Memorial Day weekend will get to see a historic maritime attraction for the ...
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