The National WWII Museum announced plan to return restored, operational Higgins Patrol-Torpedo Boatto Lake Pontchartrain; fundraising campaign to support move to permanent boathouse, testing for ...
NEW ORLEANS – After all these years, she still hasn’t lost a step. Senior Captain George Benedetto pushes the throttle forward, and PT-305 – the only combat-hardened World War II boat of its kind to ...
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The improvised weapon that saved American PT boats in World War II
American PT boats in the Pacific were failing against Japanese supply barges during the Guadalcanal campaign. This story ...
NEW ORLEANS — Two stories accompany the ongoing restoration of the PT-305 boat at the World War II Museum, project manager Bruce Harris said. First, there’s the patrol torpedo boat’s bold and daring ...
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 ...
It could be a wild ride. "It'd bounce around tremendously. When we carried troops or Marines, they got so deathly sick they swore they'd rather die than be on a PT boat," Holasek said. "But we kind of ...
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