PT Boat Squadrons: US Navy Torpedo Boats

by Tbc, Tbc

• ISBN13: 9780711030442
• ISBN10: 0711030448
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-30
• Publisher: Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc

Summary

Motor torpedo boat development began in the early 1900s but it was not until the late 1930s that the US Navy seriously took on the challenge to create its own programme. The first US PT boats to see action in World War II were at Pearl Harbor and in the Philippines. By the end of the war over 600 had seen service in the Pacific theatre, the English Channel and Mediterranean Sea. In 1940 the US Navy's PT boats were organised into Motor Torpedo Boat Squadrons, regularly shortened to the nickname of 'Ron'. Forty five 'Rons' were commissioned, of which 37 saw service by war's end, including Ron 2, among whose boats was USS PT-109, commanded by future president Lt (JG) John F. Kennedy who would win the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for his heroics. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Origins & History	p. 6
Ready for War	p. 9
In Action	p. 15
Equipment, Markings and Camouflage	p. 66
The Crew	p. 80
Postwar	p. 86
Assessment	p. 89
Reference	p. 92
Index	p. 96
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