From the Columbia Daily Tribune "The Saga of the PT-305" by Terry Ganey.
PT-305 was manufactured in New Orleans in 1943 and decommissioned in New York City after the war.
PT-Boats are described as "small, fast and bristling with torpedoes and automatic weapons..."
Probably the best-known PT-Boat (Patrol-Torpedo Boat) was PT-109, skippered by President John F. Kenendy in the Pacific during the war.
The book and movie "They Were Expendable" helped popularize this service. Best-known for their operations in the Pacific Ocean, they also operated against Italian and German forces in the Mediterranean Sea.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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