US Navy PT Boat Operation - Pacific Theater

[Richard Stone]

The attached article provides a summary of the US Navy PT Boats operations in the Pacific theater.

The article was printed in the June 1946 edition of the USA professional military reference magazine ‘Military Review’.

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PT-109

[Ponury]

Boat under the command of later US President Kennedy

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https://www.ptboatforum.com/

[T. A. Gardner]

The article is wrong on one thing. No Japanese destroyers or other warships were sunk or seriously damaged by PT boat operations off Guadalcanal.
Kennedy went on to command PT-59 after returning to Tulagi from the loss of PT 109 also. Unlike PT 109, PT 59 was used as a gunboat having 2 40mm guns and a number of machineguns mounted for inshore fire support.

[R Leonard]

Meh, Browning

Try this instead

https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/Cl ... index.html