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 ...

Crew member Malcolm Hartman docks the boat after a media ride of the PT 305, which was restored by the National WWII Museum, on Lake Pontchartrain, where she was originally tested by Higgins ...

It was a run-in with the enemy that was too close for comfort, and more than 70 years later, the details remain vivid in the mind of a Navy veteran who served aboard a legendary ship. U.S. Navy ...

Architect J. Clifford Grout III has spent hundreds of hours volunteering with others on a project that’s dear to his heart: working on the restoration of a historic New Orleans-built wooden PT boat ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. – Over the past dozen years, a group of Vancouver enthusiasts had voiced high hopes for motor torpedo boat 659. A glorious restoration. A waterfront display. A captivating lesson for ...

NEW ORLEANS | It was the end of the line for the battered hulk of a PT boat at New Orleans' National World War II Museum, and an appropriate setting for the final reunion of a group of veterans who ...

T. Garth Connelly attributes his lifelong fascination with PT boats to movies and television. When he was only 4, he saw “PT 109,” in which actor Cliff Robertson portrays a young John F. Kennedy as a ...

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 ...

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 ...

President John F. Kennedy had numerous brushes with death before an assassin’s bullet ended his life 50 years ago today. Sickly throughout a childhood he wasn’t expected to survive, JFK had to ...

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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 ...