In early August of 1942, during the American forces' island-hopping campaign in the Pacific theater, a squadron of 15 motor torpedo boats was sent from the island of Rendova into the Blackett Strait ...
President John F. Kennedy had numerous brushes with death before an assassin’s bullet ended his life 50 years ago today. Sickly throughout a childhood he wasn’t expected to survive, JFK had to ...
Battlefront.com, an independent internet-based publisher for superior war and strategy games and one of the internets largest wargaming communities, and Akella, one of Eastern Europe’s leading ...
NEW ORLEANS — Engines growling, its bow high above the water and a rooster-tail of spray rising in its wake, the nation’s only fully restored combat veteran PT boat traced the course where it was ...
What could be the world's largest collection of World War II-era PT boats — made famous in the popular imagination by John F. Kennedy's exploits in PT-109 — rests ashore at a marina in Kingston, where ...
Struggling with a calamitous downturn in tourist traffic caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the National World War II Museum suspended cruises on its restored 78-year-old PT boat in April 2020 and ...