NEW ORLEANS – Engines growling, its bow high above the water and spray rising in its wake, the nation’s only fully restored combat veteran PT boat traced the course where it was tested in 1944 on the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The PT 305, which was restored by the National WWII Museum, cruises with guests of the museum Thursday, March 16, 2017, on Lake ...

The 305 isn't the only working PT boat — the PT-658 also made by the Higgins Industries boatyard in New Orleans — was restored by a group of PT boat veterans in Portland, Oregon, and has been running ...

Amphenol Industrial Operations (AIO) sponsored The National WWII Museum during their endeavor to bring patrol torpedo boat PT-305 back to the water. The restoration began ten years ago, and AIO has ...

A World War II torpedo boat that sank three enemy ships and took part in two invasions has returned to its home port. Volunteers at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans spent more than a decade ...

A U.S. Navy World War II PT boat, which was recently restored and rebuilt by volunteers at The National WWII Museum in New Orleans, has been equipped with modern state-of-the-art battery chargers from ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CORRECTS BOAT NUMBER TO 305, NOT 105 - Members of the media sit on a gun turret during a media ride Thursday, March 16, 2017, on ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A U.S. Navy PT boat that sank three vessels and saw action in Europe in World War II is back in New Orleans where it was built, what historians describe as the nation”s only fully ...

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 ...