For 18 years, PT boat veterans and volunteers with. Save the PT Boat, Inc., have worked to restore the torpedo motor boat with full armament and three 1,850 horsepower Packard V-12 engines.

The last PT boat attack ended at 2:13 a.m. For the loss of three men dead and 20 wounded, the boats had scored no hits, but they accomplished their primary mission — pinpointing and reporting ...

The boat, PT 728, is owned by Fleet Obsolete, based in Kingston on the Hudson River.Built in Annapolis and launched Sept. 25, 1945, it was slated to go to the Soviet Navy under the Lend-Lease ...

Kennedy and his 13 crew members believed it was another PT boat until the black hull of the Japanese destroyer Amagiri emerged into view. John F. Kennedy during his World War II Navy service.

WEBVTT VETERAN, WHODONATED A PIECE OF HISTORY.SERVED ON PT BEDS, IT WAS ADEFINING -- PT BOATS, IT WAS ADEFINING PERIOD IN MY LIFE.>> PT STANDS FOR PATROL TORPEDO,SHE ACTIVELY HUNTE GERMAN BOTHAT ...

Sailor remembers combat aboard PT boat Essentially, a PT (patrol torpedo) boat was a surfboard with an airplane engine and machine gun attached. Actually, three 1,500-horsepower engines, each ...

They’ve also spent time over the past several months learning the ways of the U.S.S. Sudden Jerk — a name that PT-305 received from the first crew to serve on it during World War II.

For decades, countless motorists and boaters have passed North Cove, a small recess along the Manhattan side of the Harlem River, unaware that a piece of presidential history may well have been emb… ...

After 73 years, a historic World War II boat that survived dozens of operations and a few near-misses on the other side of the Atlantic is finally heading home to the waters where its journey began.

Two U.S. Navy PT boat captains awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II were both cases in point: Lt. Cmdr. John Bulkeley received his for evacuating Gen. Douglas MacArthur from the Philippines ...

Volunteers at the National World War II Museum put in more than 100,000 hours to restore the boat made in New Orleans, and five of them made up its crew Thursday. Skip to content.