What do all these sluggers have in common? None of them is using a torpedo bat. No one on the Guardians roster is using the bat that, after the Yankees pummeled the Milwaukee Brewers in their ...

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 ...

(Navy History and Heritage Command/National Archives) The motor torpedo boat (MTB), also known as the patrol torpedo (PT) boat, has acquired its own special swashbuckling aura since the American ...

Joining up at the start of the war, London-born Mr Barnes went on to serve for 23 years and said sinking a German U-boat was his biggest ... Fairey Swordfish biplane torpedo bombers, protecting ...

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In the summer of 1940, an Italian flotilla set sail across the Mediterranean to supply their forces in Libya, joined by torpedo boats and an impressive escort fleet from Taranto. This formidable ...

Well, in 2017, I received an invitation to ride on the 78'x20'8"x5'3" SS Sudden Jerk, the museum’s restored WWII patrol torpedo ... crews hunted German ships, mostly at night, as the Allies pressed ...

Based on its experience in World War I, German Adm ... North Carolina, as “Torpedo Junction.” During that time, U-boat captains became so confident that on Feb. 28, 1942, U-578 torpedoed ...

Maurice Jester, the Coast Guard cutter Icarus, shown here, sank a German U-boat off ... North Carolina, as “Torpedo Junction.” During that time, U-boat captains became so confident that ...

The Canadian contribution saw more than 100 submarine-hunting ships assigned to escort merchant marine convoys and hunt the Nazi U-boats ... to fight off torpedo attacks from German submarines.