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Posted on: Oct 24, 2010 - 6:34am
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PT -486 was on Great Lakes
http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/05486.htm
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Jerry Gilmartin |
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 Posted on: Oct 24, 2010 - 9:34am
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That was during the trip to Detroit mentioned earlier in the post for the 1945 Navy Day celebration. Those 6 Elco PT boats returned to Melville after the trip was done.
Jerry.
PS I think Dick W. placed movies of that trip through the locks on this message board about a year ago. You can see PT486 in them as well.
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Scott Swiger
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Posted on: Oct 30, 2010 - 7:35am
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I remember being a very young man ( i am now 38) and my Dad (pt MoMM3/c) taking our family to see the PT Boats on Lake Erie. We lived in Perry, OH which is about half way between Cleveland and Penn. on Lake Erie. The boats had made a stop at Fairport Harbor and we have pictures of all of us on board one of the ships. (somewhere, have not seeen pictures in a long time). I am guessing it was sometime around 1976. I also remember the smile that my Dad had went from about his one ear to the other!!! I am probably one of the youngest sons of PT Boater Vet. I miss him and could not be prouder to call him my Dad!!!
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Chip Marshall
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Posted on: Jul 15, 2015 - 3:49pm
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After Vietnam, three PTFs, 17, 18, and 19 traveled on their own bottoms from Little Creek to Great Lakes Naval Training Center for Naval Reserve duty in the mid-1970s. They were later joined by three of the jet gunboats. The modernized facilities built for the PTFs are still in place, used by Navy Reserve LCUs (I believe). My avatar is a picture of PTF-19 on Lake Michigan. Chip Marshall
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Posted on: Jul 15, 2015 - 3:49pm
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After Vietnam, three PTFs, 17, 18, and 19 traveled on their own bottoms from Little Creek to Great Lakes Naval Training Center for Naval Reserve duty in the mid-1970s. They were later joined by three of the jet gunboats. The modernized facilities built for the PTFs are still in place, used by Navy Reserve LCUs (I believe). My avatar is a picture of PTF-19 on Lake Michigan. Chip Marshall
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Wayne Traxel |
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Posted on: Jul 15, 2015 - 9:34pm
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In July 3 1973 PTF's 17 and 19 were on public display at the lake front in Milwaukee. I was on my way to work and discovered them by accident and was totally unprepared. No camera. Did a quick tour of PTF 17 then rushed off to work with the intention of returning the next day with my camera. Of course when I returned the next day they were gone. Years later I met Bill Smallshaw a former Wisconsin resident who did have his camera and photographed both boats.
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