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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: wmenorr67 on March 10, 2017, 03:44:06 PM
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/us-slideshows/2017/03/09/wwii-ship-pt-305-returns-to-water.html#/slide/keeping-tabs
Pirate hunting boat.
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/us-slideshows/2017/03/09/wwii-ship-pt-305-returns-to-water.html#/slide/keeping-tabs
Pirate hunting boat.
Might want to fix the 40mm if they're planning on actually doing any good.
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That makes two restored PTs in running condition, counting the one in Portland, OR.
Very cool. :cool:
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I always had a soft spot for Patrol Torpedo boats. I still have this children's book from WWII in storage. Last I checked, it was going for $25 nowadaysish. Any boat with three aircraft engines in it is OK with me.
Terry
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How many here got their first look at PT boats watching McHales Navy[/s]?:old:
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How many here got their first look at PT boats watching McHales Navy[/s]?:old:
Yep - the old PT-73. McHale, Parker, Gruber, Leadbottom, a few others, and - of course - Fuji.
The show lost something when they transferred from Taratupa to New Caledonia.
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How many here got their first look at PT boats watching McHales Navy[/s]?:old:
I hated that show almost as much as Hogan's Heroes.
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I hated the really stupidly careless gun handling on McHale's Navy.
You'd think Borgnine, as an ex-Navy man, would have said something.
But apart from that, it was kinda fun.
Terry
REF (Ancillary trivia if anyone's interested):
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055689/trivia
The vessel used for shots of the PT-73 underway was a 72-foot type II Vosper MTB (Motor Torpedo Boat), a British design built under license in the U.S. for export to Russia. The war ended in August 1945 before the boat--the real number of which was PT-694--could be sent to the Soviet Union. The boat was then purchased by billionaire businessman Howard Hughes and used as a chase boat for the one and only flight of his Spruce Goose aircraft. The boat was then sold to Universal Pictures--as there were few other real PT boats left in existence at the time--and some liberties were taken in reconfiguring it to look like a PT Boat. Vosper PTs did not have machine gun turrets on either side of the pilot house (though ironically, the real PT-73--a Higgins design--did) as the PT-73 in the show did. Other irregularities are the main mast aft and a small mast right in front of the cockpit. Shots of the crew aboard the PT-73 were filmed on a full-scale mock-up in a soundstage. "PT-73" was later sold to the mayor of Hawthorne, California, and was converted to a sport fishing boat. It was destroyed when it broke loose of its mooring near Santa Barbara and washed up on the beach during a storm. The real PT-73 was a 78-foot Higgins boat assigned to Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 13, which saw service in the Aleutians and in the Southwest Pacific theater. On 15 January 1945 it ran aground and was destroyed to prevent it falling into enemy hands.
ETA, Terry: Most of the remaining PTs after VJ-Day were beached in groups and burned.
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There is a PT-309 on display in Frederisksburg, TX at the Nimitz Pacific War Museum. I believe it was restored to operating condition before being put on display out there. Kind of a long way from navigable waters right now though.
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I found a site describing the typical burning operation with clickable pictures:
http://www.pistolpackinmama.net/pb/wp_bc42a153/wp_bc42a153.html
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There is a PT-309 on display in Frederisksburg, TX at the Nimitz Pacific War Museum. I believe it was restored to operating condition before being put on display out there. Kind of a long way from navigable waters right now though.
Virtual Tour of the PT boat: http://www.pacificwarmuseum.org/images/virtual_tours/ptboat/tourfiles/flash/index_fs.html (http://www.pacificwarmuseum.org/images/virtual_tours/ptboat/tourfiles/flash/index_fs.html)
It has no engines, so it's not exactly in operating condition. ;)
Also for your kids - a PT boat game. http://www.pacificwarmuseum.org/images/games/game.swf (http://www.pacificwarmuseum.org/images/games/game.swf)
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Aces High has the 80' Elco modeled into the game. It's fun to putt around in, though most aircraft just ignore you. It's pretty funny when somebody decides to saddle up on your six, though.
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Posted on wrong thread. Too many tabs open. Drat.
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Haha, you're old. :old:
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Haha, you're old. :old:
Eh?
Oh, gotcha.
My usual response to geriatric discrimination is, "Let's hope you never get this old, sonny." >:D
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Virtual Tour of the PT boat: http://www.pacificwarmuseum.org/images/virtual_tours/ptboat/tourfiles/flash/index_fs.html (http://www.pacificwarmuseum.org/images/virtual_tours/ptboat/tourfiles/flash/index_fs.html)
It has no engines, so it's not exactly in operating condition. ;)
Also for your kids - a PT boat game. http://www.pacificwarmuseum.org/images/games/game.swf (http://www.pacificwarmuseum.org/images/games/game.swf)
Perhaps not. I recall some years ago a PT boat was restored near Galveston and was put on the water and run through its paces. It was on the news and supposedly it was headed to an inland museum where it wouldn't be on the water. I thought that was it. Maybe not.
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I *LOVE* that show!
https://youtu.be/i9Mw4NSM0bk
https://youtu.be/u-KkmYNEAI8
Guns, PT Boat, guns, BAD girls (you do NOT want to be on their wrong side!), guns and cutlery. Things get perforated, people leak, things disassemble energetically and at great velocity and there is the occasional conflagration. It's not all brown water based or water based for that matter. It is a very action packed adventure that is not a kiddy show as it is a tad violent (coughAWholeFreakingLot!!!cough). Most here would probably like it.