Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The motor torpedo boat (MTB), also known as the patrol torpedo (PT) boat, has acquired its own special swashbuckling aura since ...
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - She is 78 feet long, 40 tons, and could travel up to 40 knots, or 46 miles per hour, in her prime. “Usually, there were 13 or 14 U.S. Navy crewmen aboard a PT boat like this,” ...
PT Boats is dedicated to a small group of little known but perhaps some of the most daring naval combatants of World War II: the torpedo boat crews. These ships are small, fast and agile, and ...
Using Belmont Road one recent afternoon, Gordon Caldis put World War II into perspective. "I tell you, it's probably about where Belmont is," the 87-year-old Grand Forks attorney said, pointing a ...