PT boat

A PT boat was a motor torpedo boat (hull classification symbol "PT", for "Patrol Torpedo"), a small, fast vessel used by the United States Navy in World War II to attack larger surface ships. The PT boat squadrons were nicknamed "the mosquito fleet".

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Torpedo boat - Hull classification symbol - United States Navy - World War II - Surface ship

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The most famous of these torpedo boats, PT-109, commanded by future United States President John F. Kennedy, was a PT-103 class torpedo boat, hundreds of which were built between 1942 and 1945 by Elco Naval Division of Electric Boat Company at Bayonne, New Jersey.

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PT-109 - United States President - John F. Kennedy - 1942 - 1945 - Electric Boat - Bayonne, New Jersey

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