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Dick
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 Posted on: Jul 9, 2008 - 6:41pm
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Anyone wishing to post photos on this board please download the linked word .doc file. click on the link below and it will download :
http://www.ptboats.org/PhotoLinks.doc
If you have trouble understanding the direction or find it to difficult, just email me your photos or an other member and I or we'll be more than happy to post them for you.
email: webmaster@ptboats.org
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Alamo Scout
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Posted on: Oct 1, 2008 - 5:00pm
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Hello everyone, looking to find any of the 4 PT boats that assisted Nellist and Rounsaville Teams with the liberation of a Dutch Governor and his family, and 52 Javanese (along with 12 French), from an internee camp at Cape Oransbari on 4-5 October 1944. Seventy-eight people in all. Have the mission report, but no names or boat numbers mentioned. All I know is that a M.M. 1/c K.W. Sanders (USN) was part of the contact team and that the boats were operating from Woendi Island. Anyone know Sanders or the boat he was on? The evacuees were returned to Biak Island and turned over to NICA personnel. A Dutch officer, Louis Rapmund, worked from nearby Roemberpon Island, and assisted Alamo Scouts and other Army and Navy units in the Geelvink Bay area. He was killed in Oct 1945, but I have found and spoke with his daughter who is interested in speaking with anyone who had contact with Rapmund.
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Mark Butler
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Posted on: Sep 16, 2014 - 11:30am
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My father, Neil Butler, served on board PT 497 from 1944 to the end of the war. He died last Sunday (9/14/14) age 89.
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Dick
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Posted on: Sep 16, 2014 - 11:41am
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Mark . . . .
Welcome aboard.
However, more importantly, we're very sorry to hear of your father's passing. He will be warmly greeted and loved in PT Boat heaven.
Best wishes to you and your family.
Dick . . . .
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Will Day
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Posted on: Sep 16, 2014 - 12:12pm
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FAIR WINDS AND FOLLOWING SEAS......
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TED WALTHER
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Posted on: Sep 16, 2014 - 12:40pm
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Mark;
Welcome Aboard! Sorry to hear your father went on his last patrol, but he is once again bouncing along the waves on PT 497.
Take care,
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Frank Andruss
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Posted on: Sep 16, 2014 - 4:52pm
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Neil, I am always saddened to hear when one of the PT BOATERS has made his final patrol. God Bless him and your Family during this difficult time. http://mosquito-fleet.gdinc.com/
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ROSS FISHER
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Posted on: Sep 17, 2014 - 12:55pm
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"...home is the sailor, home from the sea."
Our prayers are with you and your family.
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Jayhawk72
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Posted on: Jul 29, 2017 - 7:25pm
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This is an old thread, but if anyone is still following my uncle was the commanding officer of PT 497, Many Pesos. I have a photo of my uncle and his crew.
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