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PT-105, an 80' Elco boat, under way. 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 to build, valued for its maneuverability and speed but hampered at the beginning of the war by ineffective torpedoes, limited armament, and comparatively fragile construction that limited some of the variants ...
The seakeeping qualities of boats and ease of construction matched to the available Packard engines made a perfect combination. PT-109 was an 80 ft (24 m), 40-ton Elco motor torpedo boat (MTB), one of hundreds built by the firm between 1942 and 1945 in Bayonne, New Jersey.
Purdue: 14 members of football team were killed in a railroad collision (1903). Northeastern Oklahoma A&M: 5 football players were killed in a head-on highway crash (1966). Marshall: 37 members died in an airplane crash (1970). Wichita State: most of the starting players and coaches, 31 in total, died in an airplane crash (1970).
Croix de Guerre (France) Distinguished Conduct Star (Philippines) John Duncan Bulkeley (19 August 1911 – 6 April 1996) was a vice admiral in the United States Navy and was one of its most decorated naval officers. Bulkeley received the Medal of Honor for actions in the Pacific Theater during World War II. He was also the PT boat skipper who ...
A community mourns an 18-year-old boy who is killed in a drive-by shooting. Approximate location of drive-by shooting on Google Street View "911 Cribbage Choke" April 12, 1992 Honeoye, New York: A boy chokes on a cribbage game piece he placed in his mouth. "Bubba Saves Chewy" July 6, 1992 St. Augustine, Florida
Schematic illustration of Point Pleasant Canal. Point Pleasant is a borough situated on the Jersey Shore, in northern Ocean County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. [20] As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 18,941, [10] [11] an increase of 549 (+3.0%) from the 2010 census count of 18,392, [21] [22] which in turn reflected a decline of 914 (−4.7%) from the 19,306 ...
PT-32, one of the four PT-20 class motor torpedo boats involved in the first part of the journey. On 11 March 1942, during World War II, General Douglas MacArthur and members of his family and staff left the Philippine island of Corregidor, where his forces were surrounded by the Japanese. They traveled in PT boats through stormy seas patrolled ...
Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 3. Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Three (MTBRon 3) was a United States Navy squadron based at Cavite, Philippines, from September 1941 to mid-April 1942. It was commanded by Lieutenant John D. Bulkeley and made up of six motor torpedo boats: PT-31, PT-32, PT-33, PT-34, PT-35, and PT-41, the last as the squadron flagship.