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USS PT-105
PT-105 at high speed.

PT Boats were motor torpedo boats ("PT", for "Patrol Torpedo"). They were small, fast ships used by the United States Navy in World War II to attack larger surface ships. The PT boat squadrons were nicknamed "the mosquito fleet".

Images for kids

  • PT-9 torpedo boat Washington DC 1940

    PT-9 in June 1940

  • PT boat underway near Midway c1942

    Huckins 78-foot (24 m) PT-259 underway near Midway c.1944

  • USS Hornet with PT-28 and PT-29

    USS Hornet with PT-28 and PT-29

  • PT-Boat-50cal

    PT boat gunner mans a twin .50 caliber Browning M2 machine gun off New Guinea

  • PT boat New Guinea 1943

    An 80-foot (24 m) Elco PT boat with original Mark 18 torpedo tubes on patrol off the coast of New Guinea, 1943

  • PT-109 crew

    Lieutenant (junior grade) John Kennedy (right) with his PT-109 crew

  • PT658 stbd view closeup

    PT-658 in Measure 31-20L Camouflage, May 2011, Portland, Oregon

  • ARA Alakush

    ARA Alakush, Ushuaia, Argentina (1962)

See also

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