The PT 305, which was restored by the National WWII Museum, cruises with guests of the museum Thursday, March 16, 2017, on Lake Pontchartrain, where she was originally tested by Higgins Industries ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The National World War II Museum has nearly finished restoration of a patrol torpedo boat that sank two armored German supply barges and carried U.S. commandos to French shores.

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 ...

Joseph Cirlot of Moss Point is fourth from left in back row of this photo of the first crew to serve aboard PT boat 305, now under full restoration at the WWII Museum in New Orleans. The father of ...

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Just after 7 a.m. Saturday, a 78-foot-long wooden patrol torpedo boat from World War II rolled through the Warehouse District, starting at the National World War II Museum. After it passed around and ...

"Give me a fast ship, for I intend to go in harm s way." When John Paul Jones made that statement, he was only 19 years old and the First Mate of a slave ship in the 1760s. He didn t know that his ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — 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 ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The National World War II Museum has nearly finished restoring a patrol torpedo boat that sank two armored German supply barges and carried U.S. commandos to the south of France.

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 ...