PT boats captured the imagination of the American public during WW2. From the darkest days of 1941 and 1942, the PTs were bravely slugging it out with the overwhelming Japanese invasion forces. PTs extracted MacArthur from Manila, and when he returne...
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1/10 PT Boats Were Made Of Wood In honor of the wooden PT boats of WWII they decided that the acting in this movie should be wooden too. Helpful•5 0 bob-reardon Sep 30, 2021 Permalink Produced by a bathtub admiral Spoiler Helpful•5 ...
ww2dbaseWith that said, however, PT boats in WW2 were more often deployed against barges rather than warships, which explained why most boats were retrofitted with machine guns and cannons. With the Allies gaining air superiority during the daylight hours in various theaters, Japanese supply mission...
The following images show dimensions for the Browning .50 caliber aircraft machine gun as used on WW2 PT boats. These dimensional images represent a best effort on my part, please confirm dimensions and information given here for yourself if errors cannot be tolerated. Images are for non-commerci...
PT 658 wooden boats and iron men Kennedy, far right, with his crew, as a PT boat commander in 1943.; EVIDENCE: This is an underwater image of a deadly torpedo believed to be from sunk PT-109; RECOVERY EXPERTS: Expedition leader Robert Ballard, right, and ROV pilot Dave Lovalvo; EXPLO...
(landing craft infantry) back with her. A more brittle wood might have shattered bad enough to sink her or been hard enough to explode the warhead. There's a good picture of the damage in the book US PT Boats of WW2. Concerning the pilot of the Kate flying so low, he probably knew...
[Photo] PT-221 and PT-222, Higgins 78-foot motor torpedo boats, along with many other PT Boats being stripped of their parts before their hulls were burned, Samar, Philippines, Nov 1945. | World War II Database
While you are in the Battleship Cove Naval Museum PT Boats building, compare the rudders of the Higgins PT Boat with the rudders of the Elco. Jack pointed out to me that the Higgins rudders are significantly larger, allowing a tighter turning radius over the Elco. ...
[Photo] PT-105 and two other torpedo boats of US Navy Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Five running at high speed during exercises off the US east coast, 12 Jul 1942 | World War II Database