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ROSS FISHER
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Posted on: Jan 8, 2016 - 11:20am
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Jeff,
Thanks for the great photos. Especially the shot of the four PT cradles in the well deck of the USS Oak Hill. My copy of "AT CLOSE QUARTERS" (Paperback, 2003) doesn't have that shot on page 49.
I always thought the LSD's would have made an ideal conversion to AGP's.
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Robert Orrell
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Posted on: Jan 8, 2016 - 10:39pm
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Yes - Lt Robert W. Orrell. Leyte effectively ended his career. Eight killed and eight wounded, including Ron 36 CO and a war correspondent.
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David Waples
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Posted on: Jan 10, 2016 - 7:00am
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Thanks Jeff. Founds some gems in there like the cradles on LHD-7.
Dave
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David Waples
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Posted on: Jan 10, 2016 - 7:00am
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Thanks Jeff. Founds some gems in there like the cradles on LHD-7.
Dave
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Jeff D
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Posted on: Jan 10, 2016 - 9:41am
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I'm glad to have found them too guys!
I read the brief account of the attack on the 523 in At Close Quarters Robert, rotten luck with the short letup of the rain.... I'm happy your cousin survived. I tried zooming the picture but the crews faces are too blurry in that image to be of any real use. Still cool knowing he was on her, also seeing the communication method they were using. I'm guessing they were under radio silence?
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Jeff D
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Posted on: Jan 10, 2016 - 12:18pm
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Aaaand some more:
Edit: Per Ted, this is actually PT 245
Title: Allan R. Montgomery, Lieutenant Commander, USN
Caption: Squadron commander of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 2 aboard PT-45, June-July 1942.
http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-67000/NH-67701.html
PT 133
Caption: PT boats off eastern New Guinea, June 1943.
Description: Courtesy of Rear Admiral Arthur H. McCollum, USN (Ret), 1969.
http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-68000/NH-68781.html
Title: Battle of Leyte Gulf, October 1944
Caption: Damage suffered by USS PT-152 from an enemy shell explosion during the Battle of Surigao Strait, 24-25 October.
http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-345000/80-G-345822.html
PT 152, 153, 154, 155
Caption: PT boats are loaded aboard a special auxiliary deck built over the main deck of a Navy oiler which carried them to the Philippines. (This scene was taken in New York Harbor prior to the outbreak of war).
Description: Page 64 "At Close Quarters"
http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-184000/80-G-184393.html
Title: Cherbourg, France
Description: U.S. Navy motor torpedo boats (PT) and U.S. Coast Guard 83-foot patrol boats use the waterfront as a temporary base, while operating out of Cherbourg, 30 August 1944. PT boat at left is PT-199. Note the depth charges on the sterns of the USCG patrol boats in the foreground. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nara-series/80-g/80-G-250000/80-G-256074.html
Title: Normandy Invasion, 1944.
Caption: Rear Admiral Alan G. Kirk, USN, commander of the invasion task force, (under left leg of mast), and Admiral Harold R. Stark, USN, commander, U.S. Naval forces, Europe, (under right leg of mast) en route to Normandy on a PT boat, on 14 June 1944. This boat may be USS PT-199. Note radar, spotlight, and horn.
http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-253000/80-G-253230.html
Title: PT-601, July 1945
http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-453000/80-G-453471.html
Non-identified PTs
Edit: Per Will this is PT 376
Caption: Navy personnel aboard a 7th Fleet PT boat watch as a raft from the boat puts in to the shore of Corregidor to pick up paratroopers who overshot the top of the Island in the airborne assault. 16 February 1945. "At Close Quarters" page 423.
Description: "At Close Quarters" page 423.
http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-273000/80-G-273306.html
Caption: Unloading beached PT's at Amsterdam Island, Cape San Sapor, Dutch New Guinea.
Description: "At Close Quarters" page 255. Caption not exactly as it appears in book.
http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-257000/80-G-257024.html
Caption: PT's firing at Biak, 17 August 1944.
Description: "At Close Quarters" page 258.
http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-256000/80-G-256496.html
Title: Normandy Invasion, June 1944
Description: U.S. Navy PT boats crossing the English Channel on D-Day, 6 June 1944, as twelve B-17 bombers pass overhead. Note the twin .50 caliber machine guns on the boat from which the photograph was taken. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/wars-and-events/world-war-ii/d-day/NH-44308.html
Not PT photos but related
Title: Paratrooper pick up.
Caption: A raft from a Navy PT boat makes for the shore of Corregidor to pick up paratroopers who overshot the top of the "rock" in the airborne assault on 16 February 1945. "At Close Quarters" page 424
http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-273000/80-G-273308.html
Title: Mios Woendi Island, Dutch New Guinea,
Caption: Torpedo dump at PT naval base on Mios Woendi Island, Dutch New Guinea
http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-258000/80-G-258710.html
Title: Mios Woendi Island, Dutch New Guinea,
Caption: Evaporator and water tower, at PT naval base on Mios Woendi Island, Dutch New Guinea.
http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-258000/80-G-258692.html
Title: When a PT secures to its tender, meals are provided by the "mother-ship."
Caption: These crewmen are "rushing a growler" of hot breakfast. From page 179, "At Close Quarters."
http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/80-G-472000/80-G-472468.html
Title: Insignia: Motor Torpedo Boats (PT)
Caption: Plaque which hung in the PT section of the Bureau of Ships during World War II.
http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-94000/NH-94907-KN.html
Title: Insignia: Russian PT Boats 13-30.
Caption: World War II emblem for former U.S. Navy motor torpedo boats transferred to the U.S.S.R.
http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-73000/NH-73312-KN.html
Smaller photos
Title: Camouflage Measure 32, Design 5AO
Description: Drawing prepared by the Bureau of Ships for a camouflage scheme intended for oilers of the AO 22-32 and 51-64 class. It could also be adapted to the AO 66-72 class and other vessels of similar construction. This plan, approved by Captain Logan McKee, USN, is dated 21 February 1944. It shows the ship's starboard side, stern and superstructure ends. Note that a color scheme for embarked motor torpedo boats (PT) is also specified. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nara-series/80-g/80-G-100000/80-G-165982.html
Title: Lieutenant John D. Bulkeley, USN
Description: Photographed while on board a Motor Torpedo Boat (probably PT-64), circa 1942. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
http://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nara-series/80-g/80-G-10000/80-G-14999.html
There are a lot of documents on the site also, such as this one:
Motor Torpedo Squadron ONE, Report for Pearl Harbor Attack
http://www.history.navy.mil/research/archives/digitized-collections/action-reports/wwii-pearl-harbor-attack/motor-torpedo-squadron-one-action-report.html
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TED WALTHER
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Posted on: Jan 10, 2016 - 1:22pm
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Jeff;
That first one is mislabelled, its really 78' Higgins PT 245 RON 20 at Miami Shakedown summer 1943.
Take care,
TED
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Jeff D
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Posted on: Jan 10, 2016 - 3:49pm
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Thanks Ted, I added your correction. You and Will sure know your boats!
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Jeff D
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Posted on: Jan 10, 2016 - 4:16pm
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The early mast with the early radar on 3 of the boats in the PT 152, 153, 154, 155 image, also the armor plate replacement:
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Will Day
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Posted on: Jan 11, 2016 - 7:58pm
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Jeff: Great pics, thanks!
PT-376 is the boat (first "Uncaptioned" photo) standing off the rocks on Corregidor during the airborne assault.
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