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Will Day
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Posted on: Jun 2, 2008 - 9:51am
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Nerd is right; it's the 210.
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Alamo Scout
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Posted on: Jan 19, 2009 - 10:46am
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Hello everyone. I need your help finding PT boat crews to interview for an upcoming book!
As the historian for the Alamo Scouts Assn., I am compiling an oral history of the unit to include accounts by PT boat members who had contact with and/or who supported Scout missions in New Guinea from Dec 43-Oct 44 and in the Philippines from Oct 44-Oct 45. I believe that including accounts from PT boat veterans adds balance and perspective to the Scouts incredible record of some 110 missions behind the lines without losing a man killed or captured, and will help shed light on the importance of PT boats and their crews in the Scouts success. It is hoped that the book will be published late this year. I have already interviewed over a dozen men and hope to continue for another six months.
Those Alamo Scouts missions supported by PT boats operated mostly from Fergusson Island, Mios Woendi, Biak, and Roemberpon Island in 1944, and from and from numerous advance PT bases on Leyte and Luzon. Those PT boats and other naval craft known to have supported Alamo Scouts training and live operations are:
PTs 74, 127, 132, 190, 193, 194, 300, 312, 317, 321, 326, 331, 363, 379, 488, 489, 490, 491, 492, 494, 495, 497, 522, 523, 524, 546, 551. LCIs 364, 432. LCS 10, LST 708.
If you served aboard one the boats listed above or on another boat which supported the Alamo Scouts, please drop me an email. Thanks for your help…and for your service. Please visit our website at: www.alamoscouts.org
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earl
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Posted on: Jan 19, 2009 - 3:57pm
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one of the nicknames for pt 300 was kamakaze val. little poison was nickname for pt 210
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Jerry Gilmartin |
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Posted on: Jan 19, 2009 - 7:48pm
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I am highly suspect of the name "Kamikaze Val". Especially in light of the fact that the type of plane that hit the 300 boat was a Japanese Val dive bomber. I was the one who mistakenly thought the picture of Little Poison was the 300 when it really is the 210 in RON15. This was explained to me before and I believe it to be so. Also, Frank, there was more than 1 survivor, and the one man that was supposedly uninjured was very proud of his Purple Heart that he recieved for injuries sustained during the attack. So even he was injured to some extent. IIRC, he ducked down into the 50 cal gun tub as the plane hit and suffered from some lacerations and bruises etc. I got this info from the RON16 diary, and I need RM2c's email address to give you some info. Colleen I also owe you some info from the book about your uncle. Can you please send me your email address also? Thanks! Jerry
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