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  Jerry Gilmartin

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Hi Jeff,
I know this is an old post. However, I was looking for more info about the Crashing of the PT103 by Montgomery. Can you give me any more details? Like who was it that related the story, etc. I am considering placing this as a story in our PT Boat museum.

Thanks Jerry

Jerry Gilmartin
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Hi Jerry, it was our old friend Jack Duncan. Maybe look up Montgomery's service history too to confirm he was there at the time. The 103 was completed June 1942 according to the info I have.



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The log book for PT 103 for June 1942 is available at the Archives. Maybe something is in there.

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Jerry asked Jack about the incident, here is his reply that he said I could post here. For those that may not know, Jack has an amazing memory and tells interesting storys some of which can be read here: http://www.pt103.com/PT_Boat_Veteran_Stories.html

Jerry,

Ouch! No, a different accident. The Montgomery boo-boo I was shown was on the starboard quarter with the rub strake ripped. No idea about this one. It’s a new photo to me. Maybe Jeff has the photo of the starboard crash scene.

Just the forward port tube got a punch it would seem, knocking it clear off the mount and shearing the swivel – like she was t-boned above the rub strake although that was scratched as was the hull. I would opine from the 75-year-old photo that she had been rammed rather than hitting a pier. Might it be a clipper bow on the ramming vessel? Perhaps an Elco yacht being used as a support vessel. The depth charge rack is empty, so no ordnance aboard??

Note the dent in the tube as if t-boned. She’s wearing haze gray – maybe still under trials by Elco, so unknown to the original crew?? Good a guess as any because I don’t see any life jackets hanging on the rails of the dayroom canopy. The rub strake is barely scratched. Could that be a tiny hole punched in the side about a foot under the aft tube mount?

More questions than answers, but we could write a hell of a book with my conjectures, couldn’t we??

“And there I was attacking a Class A barge when it rammed me just as eight Zeros came into view at deck level! But what’s eight Zeros? Nothing!”

Note the Plexiglas wind screen. We replaced that with plywood at Stirling Island in the Treasurys during the Battle of Bougainville due to its reflectivity revealing us to Jap planes. I made a knife handle out of the Plexiglas with red cellophane between the layer rings. Used a torpedo propeller lock for the pommel, plugging the hole drilled to fit it on the handle with a piece of sea turtle shell that MoMM1 Robert Lowell caught by hand. Food!!!! Where the hell in that remote part of the world did I find red cellophane?? No memory.

You’ve seen the leather sheath I made from the seam-reinforcing leather from the original turret covers also at Treasury when we were issued new canvas covers without leather seams.

The knife? Apparently stolen by movers during on the frequent moves that Union Oil sent us on. Bakersfield to Rialto to Richmond to Honolulu to Reno. That’s when it was discovered as missing when I needed it to gut deer. Bastards!! They left the sheath as being too personalized, I’d guess.

That’s the sea story for tonight!

massacheepjack




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