Following a zigzag path through New Orleans’ Warehouse District, a World War II naval patrol boat reached its final home Saturday, closing out a 79-year career in which it sank three enemy ships in ...

NEW ORLEANS - The PT-305 boat rolled down the streets of New Orleans Saturday as it returns home to The National WWII Museum Campus. Obtained by the Museum in 2007, PT-305 was originally housed in KRP ...

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,” ...

When PT boat coxswain George Pelligrini landed in the Philippines in the summer of 1945, the ponderous fleet of U.S. naval carriers and battleships amassed there assured him that he was most ...

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 ...

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, ...

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), ...

AGAWAM, Mass. (AP) -- The old film clips spliced with the veterans' narratives offer a glimpse of the down time aboard the 80-foot-long patrol torpedo boats used during World War II. Bare-chested men ...

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 ...