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TED WALTHER
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 Posted on: Dec 12, 2013 - 6:01pm
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I am intending to have one of the rocket storage boxes open, does anyone have a photo they can post, showing one of these storage boxes open? I need to know? if they had a prop bar to keep the lid in the open position,or did the top just fold back w!hen open?
Take care,
TED
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Nuge210
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Posted on: Dec 13, 2013 - 6:04pm
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Ted,
I remember a photo that Jerry posted, from I think Dave Prentice, on the 204 boat in Ron 15. It showed the crew firing a captured Breda. The photo has the only view I can remember of an open box of 4.5" rockets.
I'll try to find it if Jerry can't come up with it.
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Jerry Gilmartin
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Posted on: Dec 13, 2013 - 8:11pm
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Hi Steve,
Do you mean this one? I think Ted is looking for one for the 5 inch spin stabilized Mark 50 Rocket Launchers. But this is still a cool picture! Jerry
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TED WALTHER
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Posted on: Dec 15, 2013 - 1:14pm
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Steve and Jerry;
I am talking about the Mk 50 Rocket launcher`s rocket storage box..
Take care,
TED
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Nuge210
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Posted on: Dec 16, 2013 - 12:13pm
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Sorry about that ! Your right Jerry , it is one cool picture .
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Jerry N Gilmartin |
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Posted on: Dec 17, 2013 - 11:23am
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Hi Ted,
I think I remember seeing a photo from an instruction pamphlet about the setup of the Mk50 Rocket Launchers on PT Boats. It has a photo of the bridge showing the gunsights and the control box and another photo taken in front of the bow showing the 20mm boresight cannon and the illuminating mortar, the sighting bar and the rocket launchers. It looks like the photo was taken of the 2 boats they had in Miami for rocket testing in 1944. In that second photo you can see the open rocket storage box with spare rockets lating inside. I only have an extremely blurry copy, I think Al Ross has an original copy of this instruction pamphlet and if you ask him nicely he may post it here.? Jerry
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TED WALTHER
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Posted on: Dec 17, 2013 - 11:57am
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Jerry;
Thanks. I will ask Brother Al ASAP!!
Take care,
TED
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Frank Andruss
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Posted on: Dec 19, 2013 - 1:31pm
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Ted, Been breezing though my files, but it seems every time I spot one, they are closed. I will keep looking though........
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Posted on: Dec 19, 2013 - 4:13pm
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Ted,
Here is what I was talking about, it is pretty grainy but the box appears open and you can see some rockets laying inside. I think AL Ross may have posted the photo showing the close-up of the bridge with all the rocket gunsights in a previous post from 2007?
Jerry
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TED WALTHER
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Posted on: Dec 19, 2013 - 5:18pm
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Jerry;
Thanks , nice photo of PT 558 at Melville to, I guess the cockpit photo, is also 558.
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