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Great story, and a lot of images I haven't seen before:
PT boat; Bob Reed wins his command at Melville, by Henry B. Lent: [url]http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b16225;view=1up;seq=1[/url]

Excerpted words of wisdom:

[green]Toll the bell for Machinist's Mate McBrawn,
Who started the engines with the mufflers on.[/green]

[green]Bow your heads for Torpedoman John,
Who fired his fish with the propeller locks on.[/green]

Page 131 shows a Huckins firing a torpedo.

There's also a list of logbooks including PT: [url]http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015011903674;view=1up;seq=460[/url]. Page 12 shows the May 3rd 1943 page of The PT That Must Not Be Named.

Posted By: Jeff D | Posted on: Jun 6, 2015 - 6:32am
Total Posts: 2200 | Joined: Dec 21, 2006 - 1:30am

Good story! Usual wartime hype, but still a good book, of the type I read as a youngster,

Jeff G.

Posted By: JBG327 | Posted on: Jun 6, 2015 - 2:37pm
Total Posts: 74 | Joined: Sep 29, 2012 - 2:40pm

Thanks Jeff, I have several of these books, and I love them. Nice to see them though on the Computer screen for viewing...........

Posted By: Frank Andruss | Posted on: Jun 6, 2015 - 9:07pm
Total Posts: 3964 | Joined: Feb 9, 2007 - 11:41am

This was the first PT title I ever read....

Will

Posted By: Will Day | Posted on: Jun 6, 2015 - 10:18pm
Total Posts: 1955 | Joined: Oct 8, 2006 - 4:19pm