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When PT boat people talked to each other during World War II, do you know if they usually referred to a PT boat, the 157, for example, as PT "One-Fifty-Seven" or PT One-Five-Seven"?

William Doyle

Posted By: William Doyle | Posted on: Jul 30, 2015 - 6:19pm
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And speaking of pronunciations, for the audiobook version of my forthcoming book, it would be very helpful if you could post any guidance on the correct phonetic pronunciations of these names:
Lt. Comm. John D. Bulkeley
Robert J. Bulkley

Posted By: William Doyle | Posted on: Jul 30, 2015 - 6:34pm
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Sorry, I cut off the bottom:

Gerard Emil [is it "ay-mil" or "em-il"] Zinser
Johnny Iles

Posted By: William Doyle | Posted on: Jul 30, 2015 - 6:41pm
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End of list: Dick Keresey, Jr., Leonard Nikoloric, Leon Drawdy, Peter Tares, Edmund Drewitch. Any guidance you can offer on correct pronunciations will be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

William Doyle

Posted By: William Doyle | Posted on: Jul 30, 2015 - 6:44pm
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I've heard more than one of them called "That Bitch"......

Will

Posted By: Will Day | Posted on: Jul 30, 2015 - 10:15pm
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HA HA! Good one Will....I heard one referred in a question by an OOD as " Boats, who is that nice old guy in the dirty coveralls, down in the bilge?"

Posted By: TED WALTHER | Posted on: Jul 31, 2015 - 7:12am
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As I mentioned Bill, Squadron Commanders knew which boats were in their squadrons. There would be no need for them to say "Take PT such and such on patrol. It would simply be the boats number...........

Posted By: Frank Andruss | Posted on: Jul 31, 2015 - 1:45pm
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I always thought they'd have referred to their own boat as "the boat," and others by the boat number, such as "the 157," or maybe "the 157 boat," like they did in "They Were Expendable."

Posted By: Drew Cook | Posted on: Aug 1, 2015 - 1:09pm
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Drew;
True that! My boat, our Boat, The Boat and every other boat was a number.
Take care,
TED

Posted By: TED WALTHER | Posted on: Aug 1, 2015 - 6:46pm
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when i was aboard we called them/////the 7 boat/the 8 boat/thre 3 boat. etc
the 65 boat

earl richmond

Posted By: earl | Posted on: Nov 12, 2015 - 8:29pm
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My Dad was in Squadron 24, he always referred to it as "Ron 24". As to boats, he always used the last two numbers such as "The 37 Boat" or "The 41 Boat". His was PT-342 so his was "The 42 Boat" . Actually, don't they do that in "They Were Expendable" too? My two cents.

Posted By: Jeff Sherry | Posted on: Nov 28, 2015 - 6:47pm
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