PT-109 was an 80-foot Elco PT boat (patrol torpedo boat) last commanded by Lieutenant (junior grade) John F. Kennedy, future United States president,...

PT-59 / PTGB-1 was an S-Class Patrol Torpedo boat (PT boat) of the United States Navy, built by the Electric Launch Company of Bayonne, New Jersey. The...

A PT boat (short for patrol torpedo boat) was a motor torpedo boat used by the United States Navy in World War II. It was small, fast, and inexpensive...

PT-105 was a PT boat of the United States Navy during World War II. The 80-foot (24 m) motor torpedo boat was built by the Elco Motor Yacht Company of...

Motor torpedo boat PT-617, also known as Big Red Cock and Dragon Lady, "is the sole surviving 80' Elco type PT boat and represents the United States's...

PT-109 may refer to: Patrol torpedo boat PT-109, the boat commanded by John F. Kennedy during World War II PT 109: An American Epic of War, Survival,...

PT-796 is a 78-foot PT boat built by Higgins Industries of New Orleans in 1945. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1986 as one of a very...

Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 in the Pacific theater of World War II. The film was adapted by Vincent Flaherty and Howard Sheehan from the book PT 109: John...

White, relating the story of the exploits of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Three, a United States PT boat unit defending the Philippines against Japanese invasion...

21-inch (530 mm) MK-18, swing-out, torpedo tubes (as carried on the early war 80-foot Elco boats like the PT-109) replacing the MK-7/8 tubes normally...

lightly armored, but yet mobile and maneuverable small PT Torpedo Boats increased, as well as Patrol and Landing Craft used in case of National Emergency...

Torpedo Boat PT-109. PT-109 is a torpedo-boat simulation game which starts in the practice-tactics mode to teach new players how to operate the boat,...

frigates, missile boats are popular with nations interested in forming a navy at lower cost. They are similar in concept to the torpedo boats of World War...

bomber Consolidated PB2Y Coronado - Flying boat/patrol bomber Consolidated XP4Y Corregidor - Flying boat/patrol bomber Culver TDC - Radio-controlled drone...

American PT boats and British motor torpedo boats (MTBs). As a result of early war experience of combat against the fast and powerful S-boats, the Royal...

islands, Plum Pudding, Olasana, and Naru, that were visited by the Patrol torpedo boat PT 109 survivors lie just to the southeast of Ghizo island. On 2 April...

operations forces (SOF). Special boat teams trace their history to the PT boats of World War II. Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Three rescued General Douglas...

the ramming and sinking of future President John F. Kennedy's Patrol Torpedo Boat 109 by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri off the coast of Kolombangara...

President John F. Kennedy and his surviving crew after their motor torpedo boat, PT-109, was sunk by the Japanese in August 1943. Evans was born in Sydney...

they left, the remaining boats were virtually blind. Patrolling just after the section leader had departed for home, PT-109 was run down on a dark moonless...

17 February. In the ensuing months, she tended the motor torpedo boats running security patrols off Guadalcanal. On 7 April the Japanese raided the Guadalcanal-Tulagi...

18 flying boat patrol bomber Dornier Do 19 heavy bomber Dornier Do 22 reconnaissance torpedo bomber Dornier Do 23 bomber Dornier Do 24 patrol bomber flying...

More 80-foot Elco boats were built than any other type of US motor torpedo boat. Perhaps the most notable 80-foot PT boat was PT-109, commanded by future...

loaded. The lead Japanese force evaded the PT boats' torpedoes, but were hit hard by the destroyers' torpedoes, losing a battleship. Then they encountered...

British admiral Charles A. "Bucky" Harris (fl. 1940s), crewman of patrol torpedo boat PT-109, commanded by then LTJG John F. Kennedy Charles Harris (mayor)...

midget boat, but the prototype was not complete when scuttled in May 1945. Neger (~200 built) 1-man 5-ton torpedo with underslung G7E torpedo. Top speed...

riot of 1943, a race riot. August 3 – WWII: John F. Kennedy's patrol torpedo boat PT-109 is rammed by a destroyer. August 5 – WWII: John F. Kennedy and...

more than 40 surviving. At 2:00 am local time, the U.S. Navy patrol torpedo boat PT-109, with a crew of 13 commanded by Lieutenant (j.g.) John F. Kennedy...

and more maneuverable, United States Navy PT boat, PT-109, commanded by John F. Kennedy. Explosive motor boats which usually detonated after ramming their...

pages 165-166. "USS Cythera". Retrieved 28 April 2012. "U.S. Navy Motor Torpedo Boat Operational Losses in World War II: Circumstances, Location and Date...