NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A U.S. Navy PT boat that sank three vessels and saw action in Europe in World War II is back in New Orleans where it was built, what historians describe as the nation’s only fully ...
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PT-109: The WWII Boat of LTJG (and Future POTUS) John F. Kennedy
JFK’s heroic actions earned him the Navy and Marine Corps Medal, as well as a Purple Heart. Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump's newly-confirmed secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), ...
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - She is 78 feet long, 40 tons, and could travel up to 40 knots, or 46 miles per hour, in her prime. “Usually, there were 13 or 14 U.S. Navy crewmen aboard a PT boat like this,” ...
The motor torpedo boat (MTB), also known as the patrol torpedo (PT) boat, has acquired its own special swashbuckling aura since the American Civil War, when a Union boat armed with spar torpedoes sank ...
PT Boats is dedicated to a small group of little known but perhaps some of the most daring naval combatants of World War II: the torpedo boat crews. These ships are small, fast and agile, and ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. In 1942, the Japanese were bearing down on the Philippines, where General Douglas MacArthur was based. To help him escape, the navy relied on a ...
The Australian heavy cruisers Shropshire (left) and Australia (right), with a U.S. heavy cruiser, photographed through a ring gun sight aboard the cruiser Phoenix, off Leyte on Oct. 21, 1944. (Navy ...
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