Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The motor torpedo boat (MTB), also known as the patrol torpedo (PT) boat, has acquired its own special swashbuckling aura since ...

American PT boats in the Pacific were failing against Japanese supply barges during the Guadalcanal campaign. This story follows Lieutenant Robert Lynch, his crew aboard PT-48, and the desperate ...

JFK’s heroic actions earned him the Navy and Marine Corps Medal, as well as a Purple Heart. Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump’s newly-confirmed secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), ...

Though it was shot out from under him, John Clagett of Middlebury still has fond memories of the small boat on which he served in World War II. So fond, in fact, that as he looked over a large marble ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - She is 78 feet long, 40 tons, and could travel up to 40 knots, or 46 miles per hour, in her prime. “Usually, there were 13 or 14 U.S. Navy crewmen aboard a PT boat like this,” ...

The U.S.S. Sudden Jerk, a PT-305 WWII vessel, is removed from the National WWII Museum's John E. Kushner Restoration Pavilion in New Orleans, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2016. The National World War II Museum ...

Hundreds of PT boats were deployed during World War II. President John F. Kennedy famously served on PT-109, and another rescued Gen. Douglas MacArthur from capture in the Philippines — a raid ...