j.g. Byron White (the future Supreme Court justice), 14 PT boats—three-engine wooden vessels armed with two .50-caliber machine guns and torpedoes—left their Rendova Island base at 6:30 p.m ...

Two U.S. Navy PT boat captains awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II were both cases in point: Lt. Cmdr. John Bulkeley ...

The deck of the PT-305 as the boat sits in retirement in The National World War II Museum in New Orleans. Doug Stewart photo A quarter of a century ago, The National World War II Museum opened in New ...

The Australian heavy cruisers Shropshire (left) and Australia (right), with a U.S. heavy cruiser, photographed through a ring gun ... boat (MTB), also known as the patrol torpedo (PT) boat ...