Red Logan #12252 Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 http://videos2view.net/PT658.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 Cool. Very, very cool~! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Four-Eyed Buck,SASS #14795 Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 There were two company's making them, Elco was one. can't remember the other one off hand. At the end of the war, they burned a lot of them instead of bringing them home.......Buck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 There were two company's making them, Elco was one. can't remember the other one off hand. At the end of the war, they burned a lot of them instead of bringing them home.......Buck Higgins, I do believe... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Four-Eyed Buck,SASS #14795 Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 Bingo! Give the man a ci-gar Took some serious sand to take on some of the ships and barges those guys did clad in plywood and fueled with Av-gas. Both sides of the war, too, ETO, MTO, as well as PTO.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Four-Eyed Buck,SASS #14795 Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 Another thing just crossed my foggy brain. the PT's last hurrah was the Battle of Surigao Strait in conjunction with the 7th Fleet during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. they had a hand in wiping out Admiral Nishimura's group the night before the big dust up in the Gulf....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Sage, SASS #49891 Life Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 These boats were so well made that many that survived the War and made it back were sold and converted to pleasure boats and such. When I was a teenager a friend of my Dads had one that was converted to a sport fishing boat in Long Beach, California. I used to work on it as a deckhand on weekend fishing trips. It was a wonderful craft, but because it was wood, required a lot of work. It was eventually sold and went to Mexico with a new owner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rippin kid Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 I would like to restore a 21/2 ton truck (M211) from that era. I have collected some of the parts but I need to find a non rusted out truck for the base. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
U B Mountain #40498 Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 Did Huckins make any?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deacon Will Posted March 25, 2011 Share Posted March 25, 2011 YUPP! The ORGINAL PT Cruiser! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C. Erroll Madre Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 Did Huckins make any?? Yes, Huckins made 18 PT Boats. None saw combat action. Most were used to patrol the Panama Canal, and a few were in Hawaii for patrols. I believe it was that Huckins was a much smaller outfit than Elco or Higgins that prevented them from producing the numbers needed by the Navy for combat boats. Also, there were some "peculiarities" about the Huckins model that were not prevalent in the Elco & Higgins, which didn't lend themselves well to combat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 Did Huckins make any?? Don't know, but the only big pleasure boat I ever wanted was a 63' Huckins 'Out Islander' about 1968. My God, that was beautiful boat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 I recall when they made the movie PT 109, they had to use converted sub chasers because of the rarity of operating PT boats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas LawDog Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 Back in the early 70s, my Dad was going through chemo at M D Anderson Hosp. in Houston. He became friends with a former PT Boat skipper who was also going through chemo. This guy told some interesting stories about PTs in the Pacific during WW2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted March 29, 2011 Share Posted March 29, 2011 From the foggy depths of my noggin comes a memory of a story I read as a teenager... described a PT attack on ships in a Japanese convoy. The one detail I recall from the story was that the Japanese would initally train their searchlights skyward... somewhat duped by the sound of the Packard aircraft engines. Don't think it fooled 'em for long, though. (Even back then I wondered about that - an aircraft engine just wouldn't sound the same in a boat with exhaust ported below the waterline... or was it?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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