Back in the 40’s, Arthur Smith was a sailor about one of the PT boats fighting the Nazis. That was the time when fear became thrill, Smith says to Wild Bill. Arthur Smith traveled to New ...

Kennedy's wartime boat, which a Japanese destroyer ... Instead, the Japanese destroyer Amagiri rammed PT 109 before Kennedy could order the firing of its torpedoes. The 11 surviving crewmen ...

The Higgins Industries Patrol-Torpedo boats were known for their speed ... and the German warships quickly started firing at it as PT-305 slipped off into the darkness. “We got off to one ...

The experts also identified a cranking mechanism used to position torpedo tubes for firing. It was pok-ing through the sand. The center’s records show that no other PT boat was known to have ...

firing 30 torpedoes in all, with none hitting their targets. The order came to return to base. PT-109 and three other boats formed a line across the strait, covering their retreat. One of the PT ...

Kennedy’s wartime boat, which a Japanese destroyer ... Instead, the Japanese destroyer Amagiri rammed PT 109 before Kennedy could order the firing of its torpedoes. The 11 surviving crewmen ...

With its laminated mahogany hull, a PT boat was the fastest ... targets time after time, firing all the weapons they had on board, including their rockets and torpedoes. The muzzle blasts on ...

a rapid-firing 37-millimeter cannon in the front and a 40-millimeter cannon in back.” The PT boat was also outfitted with two Browning 50-caliber machine guns, two torpedoes and four depth charges.

The "PT" stands for Patrol Torpedo (motor torpedo boats or MTBs) and were initially built as annoying anti-ship weapons capable of high-speed torpedo attacks against much larger targets.

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 ...

In the spirit of it all, let’s recall the story of the real PT-109, the little torpedo boat whose star-crossed fate made a war hero out of JFK, and eventually helped propel him into the White ...