NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Engines growling, its bow high above the water and a rooster-tail of spray rising in its wake, the nation's only fully restored combat veteran PT boat traced the course where it was ...
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How a Three-Engine Flying Boat Became One of WWII’s Strangest Designs
With three engines, a boat-like hull, and a look straight out of science fiction, the Blohm & Voss BV 138 was Germany’s bold ...
"Give me a fast ship, for I intend to go in harm s way." When John Paul Jones made that statement, he was only 19 years old and the First Mate of a slave ship in the 1760s. He didn t know that his ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A U.S. Navy PT boat that sank three vessels and saw action in Europe in World War II is back in New Orleans where it was built, what historians describe as the nation’s only fully ...
With a throaty rumble from its three 1,500-horsepower Packard engines, PT Boat 305 eased back from its dock near Lakefront Airport on Thursday, its maiden voyage with a new mission: giving passengers ...
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FREDERICKSBURG -- Fifty years after seeing combat in the Mediterranean, PT 309 reached its final port of call Thursday at the National Museum of the Pacific War. "It couldn't be any nicer," said Ollie ...
SYDNEY, Australia — Shipwreck hunter Robert Ballard said Wednesday that he has found the World War II patrol boat commanded by John F. Kennedy in the Pacific Ocean off the Solomon Islands. The remains ...
Struggling with a calamitous downturn in tourist traffic caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the National World War II Museum suspended cruises on its restored 78-year-old PT boat in April 2020 and ...
The PT 305, which was restored by the National WWII Museum, cruises with guests of the museum Thursday, March 16, 2017, on Lake Pontchartrain, where she was originally tested by Higgins Industries ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A U.S. Navy PT boat that sank three vessels and saw action in Europe in World War II is back in New Orleans where it was built, what historians describe as the nation”s only fully ...
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