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Will Day
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 Posted on: May 4, 2007 - 9:52pm
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PT-526 was also called RETURN TICKET at one point. The 525 skipper must have taken the name with him when he switched boats.
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Gary Szot
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Posted on: May 6, 2007 - 10:22am
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Will;
I noticed a few boats in RON 36 were called Return Ticket. Do you think the squadron adopted the name because they felt they were McArthurs
"Return Ticket" to the Philipines?
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Will Day
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Posted on: May 6, 2007 - 5:03pm
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Gary - I never saw anything to indicate that RETURN TICKET might have specifically dealth with the MacArthur thing, and none of the other RON 36 boats had the name. That said, there is a certain logic there.....
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Posted on: May 7, 2007 - 10:39pm
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PT 221 (my Dad's Boat) was nicknamed Omen Of The Seas.
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Ed
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Posted on: May 9, 2007 - 5:51pm
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My fathers boat was the 589 Ron 40 Mighty Mouse, pretty sure it was the only name it had. Had a great picture of it that I lost with Mighty Mouse flying down the bow. I sure would like to find another one.
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Will Day
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Posted on: May 9, 2007 - 8:49pm
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Ed - E-mailing you a pic of the 589 crew. Also show SUPER MOUSE as the boat name at one time.
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MarkM
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Posted on: May 10, 2007 - 4:32am
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My Dad was QM1 on PT 261. It was nick named Lucifer Jr., which could be seen , in a photo I have of her under way.
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Katrina
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Posted on: May 18, 2007 - 12:14am
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Scott Cunningham, I have just read letters posted in regards to the PT boat nicknames and you made a comment on the PT144 and its nickname The Southern Cross. I noticed that you have a patch of the Squadron 8 under your name. Did you serve in Ron 8 or on PT 144? I am looking for information on PT 144 and its crew, particularly a man called Cecil Eugene Sellers. He met my mother in 1943 in Cairns Australia. So far Frank Andruss has helped a little with information on Cecil's mate Harold Van Cleave. If you have any information on these men it would be very much appreciated.
Regards Katrina
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Katrina
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Posted on: May 18, 2007 - 12:20am
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Scott I continued on reading on the topic of nicknames and discovered you are 2nd generation. If your father was on the Pt144 its possible he knew Cecil Eugene Sellers. He was on base 4 Cairns when he met my mother and wrote to her from base 6 in Kana Kopa New Guinea. I hope you have some good news for me.
Cheers Katrina
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Maggie Laughlin
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Posted on: Jan 21, 2008 - 8:35am
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I googled PT 323, The Calamity Jane, and came to this site. My father, David Myers, served on that boat in WWII, when it was Calamity Jane. I have a great picture of him with the crew in front of the boat.
Any information about it would be greatly appreciated. Anyone around who served with him?
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