This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS – Beginning April 1, The ...
The wooden boat that will dock Monday at the east end of the Hawthorne Bridge is no ordinary vessel. It’s , the last remaining operable PT boat from World War II. For 18 years, PT boat veterans and ...
The PT 305, which was restored by the National WWII Museum, cruises with guests of the museum Thursday, March 16, 2017, on Lake Pontchartrain, where she was originally tested by Higgins Industries ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) – It took nearly a decade ...
NEW ORLEANS – After all these years, she still hasn’t lost a step. Senior Captain George Benedetto pushes the throttle forward, and PT-305 – the only combat-hardened World War II boat of its kind to ...
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 sank ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A U.S. Navy PT boat that sank three vessels and saw action in Europe in World War II is back in New Orleans where it was built, what historians describe as the nation’s only fully ...
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 ...
When PT boat coxswain George Pelligrini landed in the Philippines in the summer of 1945, the ponderous fleet of U.S. naval carriers and battleships amassed there assured him that he was most ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) – Engines growling, its bow high above the water and a rooster-tail of spray rising in its wake, the nation’s only fully restored combat veteran PT boat traced the course where it was ...
NEW ORLEANS – A PT boat that sank three vessels in World War II and has since been painstakingly restored is back on a waterway near New Orleans, where it was built and tested. The National World War ...
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