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Topic: Higgins PTs in the Philippine Navy |
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alross2
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 Posted on: Oct 24, 2021 - 5:57pm
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Anyone know of any Higgins PTs serving with the Philippine Navy postWW2?
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Jerry Gilmartin |
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Posted on: Oct 25, 2021 - 12:21am
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I have never come across any Al. The only similar craft I ever heard of were the ones being used for coastal patrols just before WW2 and mentioned in Beckners Book "The Expendables" but those were not Higgins.
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Jerry Gilmartin
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alross2
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Posted on: Oct 25, 2021 - 5:30am
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Thanks, Jerry. Those were the "Q" boats of the Offshore Patrol. Essentially, they were versions of the Thornycroft CMBs from the WWI period. Some guy on one of the Facebook PT groups is claiming they did. I messaged a friend who is a naval officer in the Philippines and an historian, and he never heard of them. The search goes on...
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