Two U.S. Navy PT boat captains awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II were both cases in point: Lt. Cmdr. John Bulkeley ...

The deck of the PT-305 as the boat sits in retirement in The National World War II Museum in New Orleans. Doug Stewart photo A quarter of a century ago, The National World War II Museum opened in New ...

Patrol torpedo boat PT-109 was built by the Electric Launch ... her fellow PT boats in the Western Pacific theater during World War II. PT-109 arrived in the Solomon Islands in late 1942 and ...

Earl Russell Fox was the last World War II veteran still on active duty and ... as a commissioned officer the next year. He commanded patrol torpedo (PT) boats for much of the war, including ...

On October 24, 1944, during World War II, the USS Tang sank off the coast ... Its service came to an end on the fifth patrol. The boat's first war patrol began on January 22, 1944, when the ...

(Navy History and Heritage Command/National Archives) The motor torpedo boat (MTB), also known as the patrol torpedo (PT ... the Medal of Honor in World War II were both cases in point: Lt.