Devil Boats (Full Version) PT Boat Video
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 พ.ค. 2022
- A Warner Brothers produced Hollywood Gung-Ho WWII film of the U.S. Navy Motor Torpedo Boat Service (PT). The short film follows a new officer recruit, Bob Palmer, through the Navy’s Melville, Rhode Island, Motor Torpedo Boat Training Center, and culminating in his nearly single hand win over the Japanese Navy. Well, maybe this is a little over dramatization on my part, but clearly evident while watching the movie. It’s all good fun since we have the luxury of seeing the war from a distant era, and that we didn’t experience it personally. This is clearly a typical (one of hundreds) WWII Hollywood propaganda films produced during the trying times of World War II. (Please note, the term propaganda is not a negative term but a class of film types, used world wide buy both the good guys and the bad guys)!
My dad was Executive officer on PT 257 and commanding officer on 264 squadron 26 in Hawaii. Their base was on lanai. He and his buddy wanted to get into the thick of the war but got sent to Hawaii instead. Both boats were on crash duty. And training our ships for kamakazee boat attacks. I just unwrapped and put on display in my man cave the American flag he brought back from his base. All 48 stars. I Oslo have the ships clock and barometer from his boat. The boats were destroyed after the war so he saved a couple of momentos. He took tons of photos and I had his uniform and other things which I donated to the 658 PT boat museum on swan island in Portland Oregon. He was an incredible roll model for me. He was made for the Navy and the PT boats.
Thanks for posting this film. As a second generation Navy Seabee (my dad was on Saipan in WWII), I salute you and your dad! I'm a Viet Nam veteran and went through the '68 TET Offensive in Da Nang when I was 19 years old. I've always admired the PT boats. Thanks again for the post.
As soon as I turned 17 I joined the navy cause I talked my mother into signing her permission to do so. One of the main reasons I did join was watching McHale’s Navy on TV. It was during the Vietnam War and the Navy had “Swift Boats,” closest thing to the old WW2 PT boats. But I never got any assignment to those vessels of the “Brown Water Navy” of time, only served aboard “blue water” destroyers and cruisers for the 12 years active duty and the rest in active reserve.
My uncle Leo Piersall served on PT 532. In late 1944 they received 5" rockets shot from a 4x4 16 shot launcher. In seconds they could shoot sixteen five inch rockets a mile and a quarter. When they received rockets is when they started calling them Devil boats. Borneo campaign probably.
Remember they were trying to get people to donate to the war effort. Pretty good except for the sub and carrier never heard of either being sank by a PT boat largest ship i had heard were cruisers.
This film is pretty corny, but I did enjoy the peak at the training at Melville, Rhode Island. My wife's uncle was a gunners mate on a PT from 43-44. In the tropical heat and humidity nobody dressed like this. Most of the time they were shirtless and wore shorts. PTs sank very few fleet level ships, but did harass barge traffic and bottled up the narrow channels. They migrated from the torpedo role to gunboat duty, which is what they excelled at.
Not a navy man but I grew up calling them the mosquito fleet. This is the first I’ve heard of devil boat. I enjoyed the video though. Thanks for sharing.
Only 531 PT boats actually saw service in WW2. for those relatively small numbers they had quite an effect.
So why is it that the officer congratulating the recruits at their graduation has his hands in his pockets when giving his speech. When I was in the military that was a no no. That being said great video. MKL
I enjoy these posts.
Thanks for posting
This was the PT boat that single-handedly won the war! In it's first mission!
Although I have the highest respect for those that manned the PT's, I seriously doubt they ever sunk an aircraft carrier.
Enjoyed thanks for sharing
How irresponsible! My dad taught me that you should always treat every broom like it's loaded. Pointing brooms at enlisted men walking by . . . what were they thinking? 😵💫
Amazing stuff bro
PT boat picked my dad up in the ocean after his ship sunk in ww2
Wooden boats for iron men.... 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🌹
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.
Awsome boats.