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Topic: How did PT Boaters Refer to PT boats? |
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William Doyle
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Posted on: Jul 30, 2015 - 6:19pm
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When PT boat people talked to each other during World War II, do you know if they usually referred to a PT boat, the 157, for example, as PT "One-Fifty-Seven" or PT One-Five-Seven"?
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William Doyle
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Posted on: Jul 30, 2015 - 6:34pm
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And speaking of pronunciations, for the audiobook version of my forthcoming book, it would be very helpful if you could post any guidance on the correct phonetic pronunciations of these names:
Lt. Comm. John D. Bulkeley
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William Doyle
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Posted on: Jul 30, 2015 - 6:41pm
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Sorry, I cut off the bottom:
Gerard Emil [is it "ay-mil" or "em-il"] Zinser
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William Doyle
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Posted on: Jul 30, 2015 - 6:44pm
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End of list: Dick Keresey, Jr., Leonard Nikoloric, Leon Drawdy, Peter Tares, Edmund Drewitch. Any guidance you can offer on correct pronunciations will be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
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Will Day
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Posted on: Jul 30, 2015 - 10:15pm
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I've heard more than one of them called "That Bitch"......
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TED WALTHER |
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Posted on: Jul 31, 2015 - 7:12am
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HA HA! Good one Will....I heard one referred in a question by an OOD as " Boats, who is that nice old guy in the dirty coveralls, down in the bilge?"
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Frank Andruss
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Posted on: Jul 31, 2015 - 1:45pm
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As I mentioned Bill, Squadron Commanders knew which boats were in their squadrons. There would be no need for them to say "Take PT such and such on patrol. It would simply be the boats number...........
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Drew Cook
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Posted on: Aug 1, 2015 - 1:09pm
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I always thought they'd have referred to their own boat as "the boat," and others by the boat number, such as "the 157," or maybe "the 157 boat," like they did in "They Were Expendable."
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TED WALTHER |
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Posted on: Aug 1, 2015 - 6:46pm
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Drew;
True that! My boat, our Boat, The Boat and every other boat was a number.
Take care,
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earl
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Posted on: Nov 12, 2015 - 8:29pm
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when i was aboard we called them/////the 7 boat/the 8 boat/thre 3 boat. etc
the 65 boat
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