PT boat facts for kids
PT Boats were motor torpedo boats ("PT", for "Patrol Torpedo"). They were small, fast ships used by the United States Navy in World War II to attack larger surface ships. The PT boat squadrons were nicknamed "the mosquito fleet".
Images for kids
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PT-9 in June 1940
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Huckins 78-foot (24 m) PT-259 underway near Midway c.1944
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USS Hornet with PT-28 and PT-29
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PT boat gunner mans a twin .50 caliber Browning M2 machine gun off New Guinea
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An 80-foot (24 m) Elco PT boat with original Mark 18 torpedo tubes on patrol off the coast of New Guinea, 1943
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Lieutenant (junior grade) John Kennedy (right) with his PT-109 crew
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PT-658 in Measure 31-20L Camouflage, May 2011, Portland, Oregon
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ARA Alakush, Ushuaia, Argentina (1962)
See also
In Spanish: PT Boat para niños
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