PT Boats in Action (Repost)
PT Boats in Action (Warships 4007) By T. Garth Connelly
Publisher: Squadron/Signal Publications 1994 | 50 Pages | ISBN: 0897473124 | PDF | 19 MB
Publisher: Squadron/Signal Publications 1994 | 50 Pages | ISBN: 0897473124 | PDF | 19 MB
This history of the development of the American wartime PT (Patrol Torpedo) boats began life as a book proposal on just one class of these fast wooden boats, which I submitted to Mr. Nick Waters of squadron/signal publications. He suggested that I turn the proposed manuscript into a developmental history of all U.S. wartime PT boats. American PT boats served in every theater of operations, from 7 IXvember 1941 to August of 1945. They served in the United States Navy, the British Royal Navy and the RtlMtea Navy. One was even captured by the German Kriegsmarine and used operationally for a short period. It is claimed that a PT boat (PT-23) shot down the first Japanese aircraft of the war. It was a PT boat (PT-41 > that took GEN Douglas Mac Arthur out of Corregidor and it was a PT boat (PT-373) that took him back to the Philippines in 1944.