PT Boats dev team announces an international contest on the best game mission for the project. If you want to participate in the game development, all you have to do is to design and describe the ...
But that boat never saw combat as it was completed in 1945, never commissioned and sold as surplus two years later. Although Higgins made 199 PT boats and the Electric Boat Co. of Bayonne, New Jersey, ...
A World War II torpedo boat that sank three enemy ships and took part in two invasions has returned to its home port. Volunteers at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans spent more than a decade ...
NEW ORLEANS — 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 ...
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 ...
With a throaty rumble from its three 1,500-horsepower Packard engines, PT Boat 305 eased back from its dock near Lakefront Airport on Thursday, its maiden voyage with a new mission: giving passengers ...
They were beautiful, fast and glamorous -- a rare opportunity for a young reserve officer like John F. Kennedy to earn a coveted command at sea. But should a PT boat ever be caught with idling engines ...
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 ...