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 ...

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 ...

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Struggling with a calamitous downturn in tourist traffic caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the National World War II Museum suspended cruises on its restored 78-year-old PT boat in April 2020 and ...

NEW ORLEANS — 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 ...

World War II veteran Ken Clarke, a native of Dubois, Pennsylvania, was drafted into the U.S. Navy right after high school graduation in 1944 and served 18 months as a forward gunner on a high-speed ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The PT 305, which was restored by the National WWII Museum, cruises with guests of the museum Thursday, March 16, 2017, on Lake ...

NEW ORLEANS -- 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 ...

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