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 ...

An experienced South Pacific Sea Dog by the name of Quinton McHale, was commissioned as a Lieutenant Commander into the U.S. Navy Reserve at the start of World War II. McHale was made the Skipper of ...

The Australian heavy cruisers Shropshire (left) and Australia (right), with a U.S. heavy cruiser, photographed through a ring gun sight aboard the cruiser Phoenix, off Leyte on Oct. 21, 1944. (Navy ...

FALL RIVER — Not everyone knows that former president John F. Kennedy commanded not one but two PT boats during World War II. It’s widely known that he was badly injured and personally saved a crew ...

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 ...

Following a zigzag path through New Orleans’ Warehouse District, a World War II naval patrol boat reached its final home Saturday, closing out a 79-year career in which it sank three enemy ships in ...

NEW ORLEANS — PT-305 now sits behind a white tarp in a dry dock at Seabrook Harbor and Marine in New Orleans. Before the Covid shutdown, the refurbished World War II era Navy vessel was in the water, ...