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Awesome video always been a fan of the PT boats. Most of the PT crews are sadly at the end of they're lives as are those craftsman & craftswomen who built those mighty boats. They are all Patriots.

Amazing video.american History

Robert Montgomery and John Wayne show off the PT boats in fine form in, They Were Expendable (1945). It was director, John Ford's first movie after being released from the Navy and Robert Montgomery had served on PT boats.

He don'tlook like William Holden. What's up with that?!

Some look with despair to the current state of the country, I know what you’re seeing. Previous foes have looked at the country and seen decadence and softness, it was their mistake. I have no fear that when the time calls for it, people will come together, pull together, and once again, get the job done.

That PT boat hull is one of the most beautiful, graceful shapes to ever hit the water and is a benchmark that is still used today

The movie PT109 which was JFK's PT boat was filmed in the Florida Keys.

5:41 "It's a Wooden Boat: Mahogany from Africa and Honduras, white oak from Jersey, Brazilian balsa, maple, fir. Burmese teak, West Coast Cedar, Wisconsin Birch, Alaska and Canadian Spruce, Ash, Poplar and Heavy Greenheart from the Guineas"

Designs came from the UK, initially

Can't tell you how much I enjoyed this video. That was a time when the best of our predecessors gave their all to defeat evil and tyranny in the world. This is just one example of the Herculean efforts made by our grand parents and great grand parents. We shall remember them.

Depth charges were bad ass

Wish I could have a PT BOAT. 😊

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Our torpedoes didn't work

It’s hard to believe that the boat was in that bad of shape. It was launched in July 1942 and did not arrive in the South Pacific until late 1942. It was Sunk in August of 1943. So 7 to 9 months old basically. And it was sunk 13 months after first being launched from the ship builders.

THANKS!!!!!! Love it!!!!

The PT boat Squadron Kennedy was with , sent out multiple boats on patrol in the sane area at once. There are many other statements from others, who were on Patrol from that Squadron the night Kennedy's PT boat was ran over by a Japanese warship. One such statement was that: the nights had been warm and humid. Which induced sleep on many of the PT boats crews. He surmised, that is what happened to Kennedy's crew. They were asleep, and that is how they were unaware of. the approach of a warship, at night on a foggy night. I personally witnessed in the 80's the entire bridge watch, All completely asleep, on a hot humid Day in very calm waters in the Arabian Gulf of a US Destroyer.

Brilliant

Robert montgomery served on them in ww2!

Why does it show a photo of Charles Harris at Kennedy's Inaugural Parade in 1961, but also earlier shows his photo as being KIA on the 109?

Andrew Kirksey was from taylor county ga. I know his nephew.

❤Congratulations! We can actually hear those magnificent engines. Not some lousy sound that some idiot confuses for music!

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I've worked in a few wooden boat yards before. Before epoxy we used resorsanol. That wasn't the keel it was the Stem. In Morehead NC the original charter boat Captain Stacy was a converted PT.

America is afraud 🖕

Sea shadow fast attack. Iran is on the chopping block.

General Macarthur finaggeled himself a Medal of Honour for running away in a PT boat from the Philippines. He also was well known for keeping a Phillipino 16yr old girl, a minor movie star as his sex mistress. All facts about this guy are easily verifiable.

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Huckins also built them in Jacksonville Florida

Great Rhode Island accomplishment !

Mahogany plywood! 8 x 4 x 3/4 is a $100 a sheet these days.

Only 531 PT boats actually saw service in WW2. for those relatively small numbers they had quite an effect.

9.1k 👍 thanks 4 the memory

Lovely.. Phenol resins in huge quantities and no respiratory protection !!! Don't want to know, how many workers died of cance later...

As soon as the War was over, the rights Women had were quickly taken away and promptly sent back to the Kitchen to be Man's servant again. They built and tested Bombers. They should have had their own Women's Air Force. Blacks were not included either. Not such a great America. Only for the White Guy who takes all the credit. BS

Isn't amazing what lengths we go to when the crisis is a war, while poverty and , of this, homelessness has little cachet?

I was station at the amphibious base in Saint Coronado Island 1970 I used to run on a PT boat out of there.

Check out Erwin Chase with his Slide Rule @ 1:55. Far superior to the Abacus, it got NASA to the moon. Those darn rascally Europeans and their American cousins...

My dad was with the 41st Recon group on Biak..PT boats would come and ferry soldiers around the island and looked for Japanese soldiers

My daddy was a Seabee on the island of Guam....I not only have his name,but my moma gave me his dog tags which I wear proudly. Love all the boats of the US NAVY...God bless America!!

Electric Boat? Trump and his 🦈 shark stories in this?

to ht extent did ELCO continue making cabin cruisers, etc sfter WWll? I remember seeing them

Cool wooden hull.. Diesal inboards...i need one

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Some here have sucked down way too much flouride.

To those that ride those PT Boats that never came back; I salute them and thank them for giving all!

I don't think the United States could manufacture boats like these today; the skills in the numbers needed do not exist.

This is basically amoral building film to show the people in the states. Most the time PT boats were at base during the daytime. If you close enough to see a battleship you were within easy range of its escorts.

I lived on one on the Sacramento River.

I do not know if the business/corporation is still in operation but roughly 15 or so years back I read about a business that obtained the blueprints for the various PT boats used in WWII and they built duplicates -- minus the arms of course. Not inexpensive 'toys,' but I can hardly think of one that would be more cool to own. If I remember correctly the business/corporation is/was located in either Louisiana or Mississippi .. but I could be wrong about that.