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), ...
PT-305 recently added another and perhaps final leg to its remarkable journey. The patrol torpedo boat was built in New Orleans in 1943 at the Higgins Industries City Park plant. Tested on Lake ...
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 ...
ATHENS — A restored vestige of WWII will paying a visit to Athens next weekend with the arrival of PT 728. This craft, while it never saw action, is one of the few remaining Patrol Torpedo, or PT, ...
AGAWAM, Mass. (AP) -- The old film clips spliced with the veterans' narratives offer a glimpse of the down time aboard the 80-foot-long patrol torpedo boats used during World War II. Bare-chested men ...
Like a lot of guys, I like things that go fast. I’ve owned numerous hot rods and motorcycles over the years, and currently enjoy my 1970 Mach 1 Mustang, my 1971 Triumph Bonneville, and am in the ...
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 ...