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Drew Cook
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Posted on: Feb 6, 2016 - 2:59pm
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Chip, interesting info about Miami Shipbuilding and their part in the building of the mockups for "They Were Expendable," but the studio that made the film was MGM, not Warner Bros. (Warner Bros. made "PT 109").
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TED WALTHER |
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 Posted on: Mar 22, 2023 - 10:19am
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ALCON;
Just an update on this topic:
Thanks to Chip before he passed, he discovered documents that stated that PT 38 was refurbished at MTBSTC and then shipped to Pearl Harbor to serve as a ASR boat. 1945-46 timeframe.
He also discovered documents that revealed that PT 46 was also returned to Melville in the summer of 1944. So I now believe that PT 46 may have been the boat that is used in They Were Expendable in the previous scenes mentioned.
Thanks Chip….RIP Brother.
Take care,
TED
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29navy
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Posted on: Mar 22, 2023 - 1:53pm
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Here is an article from the Miami Herald, April 8, 1945 about blowing up a PT boat. No real number given.
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TED WALTHER |
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Posted on: Mar 22, 2023 - 8:14pm
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Thanks Charlie!
That seals it…PT 46.
Two quotes:
“she was a veteran of the canal”.
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“She had her stern blown off “ not exactly true, 46 was involved in a collision and the carpenters that repaired her cut some length off her bow, the repair gave her a slightly stubbier looking bow.
Take care,
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TED WALTHER |
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Posted on: Mar 22, 2023 - 9:12pm
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Thanks Charlie!
That seals it…PT 46.
Two quotes:
“she was a veteran of the canal”.
And,
“She had her stern blown off “ not exactly true, 46 was involved in a collision and the carpenters that repaired her cut some length off her bow, the repair gave her a slightly stubbier looking bow.
Take care,
TED
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TED WALTHER |
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Posted on: Apr 12, 2023 - 6:33pm
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ALCON;
Follow up…
With the newspaper article Charlie found, and what I saw tonight while watching TWE for the billionth time, I took these screen shots. These are photos while the boat is on the marine railway at Dad’s Boatyard, confirm my theory 100%.
PT 46 was used, converted/disguised to look like an 80 footer, and then burned on the beach as a 77’ er again.
At sometime in The Solomons PT 46 was in a collision and the bow was damaged. The repair done to the bow was said to be noticeable and 2-3 feet short.
Look at these close ups I just saw while watching TWE.
Notice the bow planking repair is extremely noticeable.
Notice the the “S” shaped bow is gone. The bow is now a simple straight line.
Another view showing the lack of the S curve of the bow, instead, straight line.
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Stearman
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Posted on: Apr 12, 2023 - 8:14pm
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One other note that may also seal the boat as PT-46, is NAV Source and other sights, all list the fate of the 46 boat as "unknown!" Cheers, Dennis
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Dick
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Posted on: Apr 13, 2023 - 12:31pm
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Please note some changes to Ted's post. The above changes were made by the request of Ted.
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