PT-109 was an 80-foot (24 m) Elco PT boat (patrol torpedo boat) last commanded by Lieutenant (junior grade) John F. Kennedy, future United States president...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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McHale's Navy (redirect from Torpedo Boat Squadron 19)
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...
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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)...
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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...
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Battle of Blackett Strait (section PT-109)
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...
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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,...
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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...
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bomber Consolidated PB2Y Coronado - Flying boat/patrol bomber Consolidated XP4Y Corregidor - Flying boat/patrol bomber Culver TDC - Radio-controlled drone...
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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...
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raised by Imperial Japanese Navy and recommissioned as Patrol boat no 102. USS Strong: Torpedoed and sunk by destroyer Niizuki shortly before battle of...
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probably torpedoed and sank the heavy cruiser USS Northampton. On Patrol duty off Guadalcanal, Kawakaze helped to sink the torpedo boat PT-44, then took...
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Special warfare combatant-craft crewmen (redirect from Special warfare boat operator)
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...
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crew to shoot at the burning wreckage of Lt. John F. Kennedy's patrol torpedo boat PT-109. During the Battle of Vella Gulf on 6–7 August Shigure was the...
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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...
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USS Tautog (SS-199) (section First patrol)
thirteenth war patrol, into the East China Sea, beginning in December 1944. The next month she sank a landing ship and a motor torpedo boat tender to conclude...
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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...
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USS Niagara (PG-52) (redirect from USS Niagara (torpedo boat tender/gunboat))
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...
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reinforcement fast transport mission to Vila, Amagiri rammed and sank the US torpedo boat PT-109, commanded by Lieutenant, junior grade (and future US president)...
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Arthur Reginald Evans (section PT-109 incident)
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...
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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...
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employ the patrol boats to provide gunfire to silence the enemy guns and cover the PT boats as they engaged in high-speed charging and torpedo launchings...
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