In the Solomons, American PT boats struggled against shallow-draft Japanese barges that torpedoes could not hit and machine ...

In August 1942, during the American island-hopping campaign in the Pacific theater, 15 motor torpedo boats were sent to intercept a Japanese destroyer convoy generally referred to as the Tokyo Express ...

In early August of 1942, during the American forces' island-hopping campaign in the Pacific theater, a squadron of 15 motor torpedo boats was sent from the island of Rendova into the Blackett Strait ...

FLAT ROCK ó Pardon World War II veteran Harlan Nelson if he doesn't join in the excitement over the discovery last week of John F. Kennedy's famed PT-109. Nelson thinks saw he saw the remains of ...

It could be a wild ride. "It'd bounce around tremendously. When we carried troops or Marines, they got so deathly sick they swore they'd rather die than be on a PT boat," Holasek said. "But we kind of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CORRECTS BOAT NUMBER TO 305, NOT 105 - Members of the media sit on a gun turret during a media ride Thursday, March 16, 2017, on ...