NEW ORLEANS - 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 ...

The Australian heavy cruisers Shropshire (left) and Australia (right), with a U.S. heavy cruiser, photographed through a ring gun sight aboard the cruiser Phoenix, off Leyte on Oct. 21, 1944. (Navy ...

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,” ...

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), ...

ATHENS — A restored vestige of WWII will paying a visit to Athens next weekend with the arrival of PT 728. This craft, while it never saw action, is one of the few remaining Patrol Torpedo, or PT, ...

PT Boats is dedicated to a small group of little known but perhaps some of the most daring naval combatants of World War II: the torpedo boat crews. These ships are small, fast and agile, and ...

“The seas can be dangerous, but when you’re in command of a crack strike boat crew…”. Deadly naval weapon of WWII is back with more campaigns, ore combat aircrafts, ships and even more fascinating ...

The motor torpedo boat (MTB), also known as the patrol torpedo (PT) boat, has acquired its own special swashbuckling aura since the American Civil War, when a Union boat armed with spar torpedoes sank ...